North Carolina’s State Board of Elections is expanding a pilot program for the November 2008 elections that uses Motorola Symbol P460 bar code scanners.

The Drive eRazer thoroughly scrubs data from hard drives, allowing for secure disposal.

GCN interview: Larry Roberts, one of the founders of ARPAnet, discusses the network developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that later became the Internet.

Civil defense today means not a fallout shelter but a firewall.

A pair of computer security reports shows that most Web sites remain vulnerable to hacker exploits.

The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program has accused SysTest Labs of not meeting the program requirements for independent laboratories that certify voting systems.

Now that government network administrators have the IPv6 transition under their belts, a change in another Internet numbering system is under way.

GCN Interview: One of the inventors of elliptic curve cryptography talks about ECC’s emerging role in providing strong security for public-key infrastructures.

Infrastructure networking technology figures to be the hot topic during the next year when it comes to researching vulnerabilities.

STRATCOM commander proposes switch to white listing, more sensors and greater training and accountability in cyber domain.

The University of East Anglia (UEA) has nearly 15,000 students and employs around 3,000 staff. The campus is set in 320 acres of parkland and located just two miles west of Norwich city centre. It was founded in 1963 as part of the 'New Universities' government initiative, and has seen significant expansion and development including the building

The Sophos Security Threat Report examines existing and emerging security trends and has identified that criminals are increasingly using creative new techniques in their attempt to make money out of internet users. It is estimated that the total number of unique malware samples in existence now exceeds 11 million, with Sophos currently receivin

NICE Systems has won an 8-digit deal from an EMEA law enforcement agency that will utilize the NICE solutions for enhanced citizen safety and security. The company has already received an order at over $7 million, which constitutes half of the total deal. This win is a result of NICE's strategic focus on large scale security deals, and represents o

According to a recent survey conducted by LSI, 41% of organisations see employee misuse of the corporate network as their biggest security threat. The survey of 250 IT Directors and board-level decision makers, found that after employee misuse, 21% of organisations saw traditional hacking attacks as the biggest security threat to their organisat

Crimewatch Systems has rolled-out a remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV solution - built around Dedicated Micros NetVu Connected CCTV systems and NetVu ObserVer management software - to provide out-of-hours protection against vandalism and criminal attack for 15 widely dispersed sites in Cheshire, England, operated by HW Martin Waste Ltd.

The South Carolina Department of Mental Health gives priority to adults, children, and their families affected by serious mental illnesses and significant emotional disorders. The CoSign digital signature solution has been implemented by the South Carolina Department of Mental Health (SCDMH). With help from ARX (Algorithmic Research), the comp

Sophos has announced that construction and property consultancy, calfordseaden, has selected Sophos Enterprise Security and Control to protect entry points, end user machines and servers on the organization's network. Sophos's ES1000 email appliance will protect calfordseaden's gateway from email-borne threats, spam, phishing and data leakage,

Clugston Construction Ltd has installed a new health & safety and time & attendance system which claims to offer enhanced worker protection coupled with substantial operating savings. The biometric Site Access Turnstile supplied by Newcastle upon Tyne based UKB International Ltd has been installed at the GBP50m Derwenthaugh EcoPark site in Gateshead,

Meru Networks has introduced RF Barrier , the first IEEE 802.11-based technology for proactively defending wireless networks against eavesdroppers and "parking lot" attackers, who attempt to record and observe network traffic from outside a building's perimeter in order to steal sensitive and valuable information. RF Barrier uses wireless LAN te

The current loss prevention systems came over from the United States and replaced the more traditional Security manager about 15 years ago. That loss prevention system has been very effective in producing a new breed of professional retail risk managers changing fundamentally how retailers combat crime in their environments. But in the same per