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Natural disasters rarely color inside the lines. Like a toddler with his first box of crayons, they leave a mess all over the map—spilling across federal, state, and local lines.
Alastair Hayfield, research manager at IMS Research comments that “2009 was not a stellar year for the video surveillance industry. Most companies felt the pinch of the global recession and
It is a pattern in which most law enforcement and many security executives see as dangerous. A man described by Canadian police as one of the most sophisticated criminal masterminds
The opening of the Detroit Auto Show later this week also opens a can of worms. Many cities and states have passed laws to restrict texting by automobile drivers. It
OmniVision, a company specializing in the image sensors for mobile phones, cameras and laptops, announced a new image sensor chip capable of recording 14.6 megapixel single images, or full 60-frames-per-second
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a strategy for protecting people’s health during a huge emergency. The nation’s first such comprehensive strategy enumerates priority for government and
In a development likely to be closely watched by Google, Amazon.com, Microsoft Corp. and other vendors, according to a Computerworld report, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is examining potential threats
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) posted a notice in the Federal Register February 7 certifying that termination of the Loran-C signal will not adversely affect the safety of maritime navigation and that
A financial services industry group is planning to simulate a series of cyber attacks to test how well banks, payment processors and retailers deal with online threats. The Financial Services
Security Magazine has just learned that Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair has asked John E. McLaughlin, a former Acting Director of Central Intelligence, to head a small group