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Flock, a company known for its license plate readers, is facing significant challenges as multiple cities terminate contracts due to privacy concerns. In response to the loss of customers, Flock is implementing a voluntary severance program for employees. This trend highlights the increasing scrutiny and regulatory pressure on surveillance technologies, particularly in urban areas. Organizations in the surveillance sector may need to adapt to the growing demand for privacy and data protection. The situation underscores the ongoing tension between technological innovation and civil liberties.
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Cyberwarfare and information warfare are overused terms for what could be classified as cybervandalism or cybercrime, said Ira Winkler, CISSP at ISAG, at RSA Europe in London on 22 October.
The collapse of the UK Barings Bank in 1995 could have been avoided if proper controls and systems had been in place, Nick Leeson, the guy that brought down the Barings Bank told the audience at the RSA Conference Europe on 22 October.
Speaking at the RSA Europe conference in London this week, ISF president Professor Howard Schmidt said that there is now a need for people to be able to revoke the personal data they present for identification and credit-worthiness to financial institutions.
At the RSA Europe conference, 20 October 2009, in a session titled âGovernments face up to the cyber security challengeâ, Roger Dean, executive director of EEMA, declared two-factor authentication ânot worth anything anymoreâ.
Rapid7, the vulnerability management security specialist, has acquired Metasploit, the ongoing open source security project that developed the Metasploit Framework. The move is billed as allowing Rapid7 to enhance its penetration testing technologies.
The realities of identity theft and the modus operandi of cybercriminals were explained to delegates at this week's RSA Security conference in London by Brian Honan, a principal security consultant with BH Consulting of Ireland.
Although business users have had copies of Windows 7 on their machines for a short while now, this Thursday will see the first copies of the new Microsoft operating system released to consumers. And BitDefender says it is ready, as its 2010 range of IT security products have just been released, comp...
Research just published by Symantec claims to show that users are increasingly being fooled into installing fake anti-virus software - aka scamware - onto their machines.
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Reports are coming in that the source code of the Wal-Mart highly customized point-of-sale (EPOS) computer system - used in almost 900 of its stores across the US - has been hacked.
T-Mobile has reportedly been hit by two class action lawsuits alleging that the cellular carrier misled consumers into believing that their data was secure after data was lost in the cloud
Research just published by PricewaterhouseCoopers claims to show that around half of UK companies do not know how many security breaches they have experienced in the past year.
Sophos has added a new data loss prevention (DLP) technology to its stable of enterprise security software. The addition will, said the veteran security vendor, simplify how companies mitigate against accidental data loss.
PandaLabs has identified an aggressive trend for selling fake anti-virus programmes or rogueware, where instead of users seeing a series of warnings prompting them to buy a paid version, a fake anti-virus programme is combined with ransomware, hijacking computers and rendering them useless until vic...
Webroot, the internet security software specialist, reports that an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax email scam - in which US internet users have been emailed a malware-infected warning about under-stating their income or underpaying of tax - has arrived in the UK.
TeleTrusT, the German IT security association, awarded the TeleTrusT Innovation Award 2009 to the Spanish Savings Banks Organisation (Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros, CECA) for its e-signing project at ISSE 2009 last week in The Hague.
Apple Computer has been criticised for failing to address a potentially major code flaw in copies of Snow Leopard, its new Mac operating system, which means users' main accounts can get wiped.
In a session titled âEnhancing payment security in 2010â, Robert O. Carr, Chairman and CEO or Heartland Payment Systems - the subject of potentially the worldâs biggest data security breach earlier this year - declared that the model used by quality security assessors (QSA) is âbrokenâ.