The world of quantum physics has been involved in the world of security. However a security breach is possible. Researchers have spent probably a huge portion of their time experimenting on techniques to be able to publish a paper indicating a vulnerability in a Quantum Cryptographic system. They in essence have shown it is...
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X-Ray scanners at airports could soon be a thing of the past. The new system would look at the skeleton and be able to accurately identify people based on that. At as much as 50 meters away from the scanner also. In an ideal world, this could make getting through airport security much quicker....
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Now we are slightly more than half way through 2010. In this year UK mostly government departments have lost significant quantities of data. The security levels of the UK seems to be at atrocious levels. The liberal democrats have initiated a Freedom of Information Request over the data that has gone missing. To the...
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In his first official visit to Afghanistan since taking up his role as Prime Minister, David Cameron was at the center of a security scare. Intelligence reports suggest that Taliban forces had been aware of where Mr Cameron was and which Helicopter to target that he was on board. In response plans were altered...
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In 1984 at a Conservative party conference in Brighton, 5 were killed as a result of an IRA attack which saw an explosive device detonated at the hotel where the party were staying. Now the conservatives are back in power and the explosions are set to return. Counter Terrorism and security expert Patrick Mercer...
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If it was April the 1st, I’d think Intel were playing a April fool’s joke on us. But according to my clock, this is nowhere near April and my computer seems to agree so I can only conclude that the purchasing and investments people at Intel have had one or two too many. Intel...
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Having been at a meeting today discussing a ePOS system, we were informed that new regulations were coming into play regarding storing of credit card information. In my bid to find out more about these new regulations i came across some disturbing information that earlier this year Argos had been storing credit card numbers...
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With numerous security risks against everything from Apple’s iPhone to Windows 7. Combined with more increasingly sophisticated attacks such as the recent banking incidents has left the Software Security market in a strong position. Industry analysts Garner have concluded that the industry as a whole is to see a rise by 11.3% this year....
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Research has been conducted which shows that the processing capacity of graphics cards has been eradicating the strength of passwords. The architectural design of modern graphics cards as a parallel processing unit has given advantages to the graphics card for brute force attacks on passwords. In 2000, the fastest supercomputer of the time reached...
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Experts at MWR Labs seem to have uncovered a highly disturbing bug in the Palm Pre. Indeed it literally is a bug. Or has the potential to be a bug in the sense of a listening device. Security risks in the Android operating system apparently make it possible to use the phone to listen...
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