According to Verisign’s iDefense, Kirllos, a hacker from Russia is selling Facebook login information for either $25 or $45 per 1,000 acounts (less if the accounts have less than 10 friends). So far he phished around 1.5 million users for their logins and is selling them on the antichat.ru forums. [...]
According to a report released by the House of Commons, Britain may soon start using a new strategy to prevent drivers from speeding. The state will still give out tickets, but this time there won’t be a need for police officers to actually pull you over, and you might not even know that you were caught speeding until you finally receive the ticket in the mail.
This new system will incorporate speed cameras – a new device, that resembles a stop light camera. The speed cameras will snap a picture of your license plate when you run the red light, except in this case it will snap the picture when you go above the speed limit.
The way that it will work is that there will be checkpoints with cameras that can capture accurate license plate numbers of cars going at high speeds (and under any weather or lighting condition), and the cameras will communicate with each other and use GPS information to determine the average speed of cars between any two checkpoint. When the average speed exceeds the speed limit, the cameras will save your license plate number and you will be fined with a speeding ticket that you receive in the mail.
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Todd Morris, CEO of
BrickHouse Security, hesitantly presses play and sits back down, bracing himself for the worst. As working parents, Todd and his wife had no choice but to entrust their then one-year-old son to a nanny, and now comes the moment of truth: playing back the nanny camera video. Will she be everything she said she says she was? Caring, helpful, playful? Or will she be like those horror stories you see on the news? [...]
Everyone has that friend that they fear driving around with–the one with the unlimited texting plan, their phone in the cup holder in front of them, always at an arms reach.
Thankfully, a new iPhone application called Don’t Text Me was released and is now available on the iTunes Apple Store to deter people from texting that quickly-sidetracked friend while driving.
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Adaptive Imaging Technologies, an Israeli start-up company, has recently revealed its newest and most powerful surveillance camera. Unlike traditional cameras that are used for surveillance purposes, and even for professional photography, most typical cameras have a resolution that is around 1-15 megapixels. However, this new camera, also known as the “panoramic telescope” has a resolution of 1,000 megapixels or 1 GigaPixel.
Mouli Cohen, an entrepreneur and technology enthusiast notes that, “Although one GigaPixel would be overkill for conventional uses, a security system would be able to use it to zoom in and produce clear images of fine details like a small object in a man’s hand, or distinguishing marks on his clothing.”
This would be overkill for a traditional surveillance system that uses several cameras to watch over an area, but in this case, just one of these cameras can replace an entire surveillance system. The way that it will work is that the camera is able to see a panoramic (360°) view and it can zoom in on multiple points at once, such as a security checkpoint, all the emergency exits and the check in counter. An operator can even choose to set the camera to only look at faces.
“Because of this feature,” Cohen says, “One single camera can take the place of a multi-camera security system at a transportation hub or national border.
With technology improving and getting cheaper as time goes by, these types of cameras will most likely one day replace conventional security systems.
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If the words of a former hacker ring true, Microsoft has taken a vicious bite out of Apple’s security credibility.
Marc Maiffret, a former hacker busted by the FBI at age 17, claimed that Apple previously used its apparent security strength as a marketing strategy, but would not have been able to back up their claims.
What started out as a regular day in Iowa ended up turning into a real wake up call for the community. Every so often, disaster exercises are scheduled to see how everyone in a community will respond and how all the organizations (such as local government, county government, city government, hospitals, school district and businesses) will deal with an emergency in the case that it really did happen. This type of exercise is common as is carried out several times a year. [...]
A new e-mail attack has recently been launched that tries to steal user’s banking information by getting them to open a PDF attachment. The e-mail sender claims to be a missed delivery notice from “Royal Mail” that include an attached PDF. [...]
Wildlife officers in Ogden, Utah used a GPS tracker to monitor the activities of bobcat trapper and accused poacher Jared Beal, who went to approximately 35 trap sites between November 2007 and January 2008. The evidence acquired from tracking his vehicle was enough to bring him to court. Beal now must face 12 counts of wanton destruction of protected bobcat wildlife, with half of those as felony counts, and each counts signifying that several bobcats were caught and killed illegally. Overall 31 bobcat pelts were found in Beal’s possession when he was arrested in January 2008, far over the legal permit limit of six. [...]
Runaway Squad, a television series on A&E dedicated to finding and bringing home runaway kids, recently aired an episode that focused on a case they solved with help from Brickhouse Security. The episode features Tayvela, the fifteen year-old daughter of a hardworking (but often not around) Haitian immigrant studying to be a nurse in the United States. When Tayvela went missing, her mother turned to Runaway Squad to find her teenager.
Retired NYPD officer and current Private Investigator Joe Mazzilli and his team used Brickhouse Security’s Cell Phone Spy to download essential information that led to a crucial break in the case. Using the Cell Phone Spy, they discovered Tayvela’s passwords to her email addresses and social networking sites and also pictures of her being exploited on the Internet. With Mazzilli’s expertise on the subject and the evidence they had, the investigators speculated that Tayvela had become part of a gang that was exploiting her to make money. Through more investigative work Mazzilli’s team was able to locate her in a Brooklyn brothel, and they were ultimately able to reunite her safely with her mother, almost nine months after she originally disappeared. [...]
One of the highest priorities parents have is keeping their children safe. They can walk them to school and back, make sure they’re hanging out with the ‘right crowd’, and keep their bodies healthy by feeding them nutritional food. But even the watchful eyes of a mother can’t always protect children from the animosity and danger of the Internet.
That is why the U.K. based Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, or CEOP, have urged Facebook to install a “panic button”. Such a feature would enable children who feel victimized or threatened to report abuse, directing reports immediately to a child protection specialist who would assess the situation, presumably to decide if it warrants intervention. [...]
Ché is a popular monthly men’s magazine in Belgium. Every month the magazine features six whole pages dedicated to the latest gadgets. In their recent May 2010 issue, they featured our Flashlight Hidden Camcorder as one of their favorite gadgets of the month.
In New York City’s northern suburb of New Rochelle, the city wants to implement 20 surveillance cameras to help police with criminal investigations and help the public feel more at ease knowing that the cameras are there for their safety. [...]
A new virus sweeping through Japan and Europe is targeting file-share websites and popular downloads before holding users at ransom for money before publicly sharing their web browsing results. This Japanese based trojan has targeted a popular file-share service called Winni, and in particular the people downloading a particular type of anime. [...]
