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Three and a half years prison sentence for rogue locksmith
Westminster City Council, Westminster Trading Standards and the Master Locksmiths Association have seen their hard work in bringing a rogue trader case to court, come to fruition. In what was one of the worst cases of fraud Trading Standards have ever seen, former ‘locksmith’ Mark Makowski is facing the start of a four year sentence behind bars. ......
W32 Stuxnet-B rootkit can install itself automatically from a USB memory stick onto a fully-patched PC
Sophos has detected a rootkit that can install itself automatically from a USB memory stick onto a fully-patched PC, even if the user has disabled the Windows AutoRun and AutoPlay feature. The W32/Stuxnet-B rootkit exploits a vulnerability in the way Windows handles .LNK shortcut files, that allows them to execute automatically if the USB stick ......
Norbain adds Cascade Electronic Systems to its range to ensure intruder solutions are available for all budgets
Norbain has added Cascade Electronic Systems to its range, to ensure intruder solutions are available for all budgets and applications. Their aim is to produce intruder systems that exceed customer expectations, are low cost and provide a solution that the market requires. A perfect example of this is Cascade’s Red4Bed system, which provides a......
The security message about encryption is finally getting through
A recent survey carried out by Freeform Dynamicshighlights the rising levels of sophistication amongst an increasingly tech-savvy computer user base. Andy Cordial, Origin Storage's managing director, "confirm what we're hearing our clients, both in the SME, as well as in corporate-land. The fact that around 55 per cent of the survey's respondent......
Siemens Security provides an effective and dependable solution to ensuring the security of a safe house
Ensuring the security of a safe house is a difficult and challenging task. Safe houses play an essential role in protecting vulnerable families. A leading Liverpool-based social housing landlord has, however, found that an integrated electronic security system based on equipment from Siemens Security is providing an effective and dependable sol......
The use of POTS for alarm communication will come to an end but each country is progressing at a different rate
The alarm industry is heavily dependent upon communications networks to provide an acceptable level of service, but with all the recent talk about the end of POTS, it is hard for dealers to know what to do. According to a new report from IMS Research, monitored alarm accounts using POTS (plain old telephone lines) transmission accounted for nea......
HAL-Locate recovers stolen caravan
In June, caravan owner Gill Kenyon's Swift Sterling Elite Onyx, was stolen from a storage site in the north of England. The location of Gill’s caravan was tracked by HAL-Locate’s 24 hour control centre, a police response was deployed and the caravan was quickly recovered. Gill emailed the Locate team, commenting “I wish to say a huge thank you, ......
Google delivers twice the amount of malware than Twitter, Yahoo and Bing combined
According to Barracuda Networks' Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report, Google delivers twice more malware than Yahoo!, Twitter and Bing combined. Barracuda Labs conducted the study across Google, Twitter, Yahoo! and Bing, over a roughly two-month period. The analysis reviews more than 25,000 trending topics and nearly 5.5 million search......
Cloudmark's Cloudfilter protects Digiweb's customers from spam
Cloudmark, Inc.'s hosted and managed messaging security solution, CloudFilter™, has been chosen to provide email security for the protection against spam, phishing and viruses to customers of Ireland’s largest hosting provider, Digiweb. The solution will be offered to more than 48,000 web hosting, domain and data centre customers across Ireland. ......
Police crack down on burglaries in West Oxfordshire and South Buckinghamshire with SelectaDNA
The district of West Oxfordshire covers over 700 square kilometres and has a population of over 100,000. Police operation to crack down on burglaries in West Oxfordshire using SelectaDNA as part of a combined package of crime reduction tools, has resulted in a 30% drop in crime overall. Forensic marking product SelectaDNA is being given to repe......
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