by Max Penn
Video surveillance equipment have many different uses, and can be categorized into several categories.
Before you can know what equipment is right for your needs, you need to know a bit more about those uses and types of video surveillance equipment available.
Some of the use we can quickly mention are for state security by […]

Richard Clarke, the man who served President Bush as a special adviser for cyber security, has a five-point plan for saving the internet.
Speaking at a Santa Clara University conference dedicated to “trust online,” Clarke called the net “a place of chaos in many ways, a place of crime in many ways,” but laid out several […]

The security researcher said he would not release code that shows how a PDF attack works until Adobe provided a patch for the problem.
[PC World] The hacker who discovered a recently patched QuickTime flaw affecting the Firefox browser says he has found an equally serious flaw in Adobe Systems Inc.’s PDF file format.
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[Weird] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has gone to many strange places in its search for ways to identify terrorists before they attack, but perhaps none stranger than this lab on the outskirts of Russia’s capital. The institute has for years served as the center of an obscure field of human behavior study — […]

Big Brother is watching us all
The US and UK governments are developing increasingly sophisticated gadgets to keep individuals under their surveillance. When it comes to technology, the US is determined to stay ahead of the game.
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Source: BBC News
Tags: Big Brother, citizen surveillance, US, UK, technology

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Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Skype users are under attack from a new worm that spreads through the peer-to-peer Internet phone application’s chat feature.
The attack begins when a user receives an instant message containing a link from someone in their contact list or an unknown Skype user, said Villu Arak, a Skype spokesman based in […]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — The F.B.I. cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone-call patterns of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records.
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Source: The New York Times
Tags: F.B.I., privacy, terrorism investigation, […]

By Ryan Singel
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by […]

BBC News
Sydney fenced in for Apec summit
A concrete and steel fence is being built across the centre of Sydney amid a massive security effort for a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders next week.
More than 5,000 police and troops will also be deployed as part of Australia’s largest security operation ever.
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In pictures: Sydney’s security […]

BBC News
Call to regulate the net rejected
The internet should not be used as a scapegoat for society’s ills, said Vint Cerf, Google’s net evangelist and a founding father of the network.

Speaking on the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he rejected calls for strict control of what is put online.
He said the net was just a […]

MELBOURNE - A 16-year-old schoolboy has cracked the federal government’s A$84 million ($93 million) internet porn filter.
Tom Wood, a Year 10 student, told News Ltd newspapers it took him about 30 minutes to break through the government’s new filter, released on Tuesday.
Tom, who attends a Melbourne private school, can deactivate the filter after several clicks.
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How to Use a Port Enumerator to Find Out If You Are Secretly Connected to the Internet
One of the most unnerving computer experiences is to notice sudden unexpected internet activity from your PC when you’re not using the internet at the time.
It can be brought to your attention several ways; for example the lights on […]