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CCTV system in crime scene house for forensic students
A police-owned three-bedroom, semi detached house, is being used by the University of Derby as a practical crime scene environment for its forensic students. The crime scene house consists of a control room, two classrooms and nine areas that can be made out as crime scenes (including stairs, stairwell and shower room). Students carry out the pr...
Implementing an effective security strategy
In the last ten years, the risks for enterprise security have grown steadily and new types of attacks have appeared. These are often combinations of viruses, Trojans or other malware from a wide range of anonymous sources. At the same time, enterprise networks are growing ever more complex. A large number of servers are dedicated to a variety of ta...
Crime prevention in schools
Church Hill Primary School in East Barnet, North London is the first school in the country to receive a new police accreditation, ‘Secured Environments’ awarded to organisations that prove they take crime prevention seriously. The scheme is the invention of the Association of Chief Police Officers Crime Prevention Initiatives (ACPO CPI) and Per...
Hackers download personal details of University of Virginia faculty members
Around 6,000 University of Virginia faculty members have been warned that their personal details - including their Social Security numbers and dates of birth - have been downloaded by hackers. According to University officials, on 54 separate days between May 20, 2005 and April 19, 2007, hackers tapped into the records of 5,735 faculty members. ...
Sony launches four analogue mini-domes and two IP mini-domes
Sony has announced the expansion of its range of monitoring cameras with the introduction of four new analogue mini-dome cameras. The SSC-CD45P, SSC-CD49P, SSC-CD75P and SSC77P analogue cameras have been designed to capture clear, detailed images in a wide range of environments and different lighting conditions. Each of the new cameras ...
Microsoft IIS Web server are twice as likely to be hosting malware
According to Google, Web servers running Microsoft's IIS Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malware as other site servers. High profile cases such as computer hardware giant ASUStek who recently had their web site compromised, created a situation where visitors the website may have been attacked simply by accessing the site ...
Security Of Corporate Data On Mobile Devices Is Declining
A recent survey conducted by Sybase iAnywhere shows that the majority of companies are still failing to encrypt company-sensitive information on mobile devices. 60% of IT professionals surveyed had sensitive business information, such as emails and passwords, stored on their mobile devices. Results from the same survey last year indicated that 62% ...
Germany gets tough on computer crime
The German Parliament has ruled that many more categories of hacking are an illegal act and should be punishable like any other crime. It is now an offense to create, sell, distribute or even acquire so called Hacker Tools in order to obtain illegal access to protected data. Another new offense is the unauthorized access of secured data by means th...
Snooping IT Staff peek at your confidential data
According to a survey released by Cyber-Ark® Software, whilst you sit at your desk working innocently away, little do you realise that one in three of your IT work colleagues are snooping through company systems, peeking at confidential information such as your private files, wage data, personal emails, and HR background, just by using the special ...
New Axis PTZ network camera with auto-flip for 360 degree surveillance
Axis Communications has announced the introduction of the AXIS 215 PTZ Network Camera, a Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera that provides full 360 degree panning by the use of the new and unique auto-flip feature. The AXIS 215 PTZ also features automatic day and night functionality, 12x optical zoom, 4x digital zoom and auto-focusing. Simultaneous MPEG-4 an...
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