UK: Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance Trust (KSSA) and Tactical Wireless Ltd (TWL) have reached an agreement for the joint development of a backpack-mounted version of TWL’s award winning Omni-Hub™ multi-mode communications system.
The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) has responded to recent reports in the press that councils in England and Wales are cutting back by spending less on public space CCTV. According to the Independent, “CCTV cameras in towns and cities across the country are being switched off by councils who cannot afford to keep them running, making it ‘increasingly difficult’ for police to investigate serious crimes…”
In light of last week's 4 million strong data breach, described as one of the largest thefts of government data ever seen, TK Keanini, CTO, Lancope writes:
"Last Thursday night, U.S. officials said that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had suffered a breach. Data from four million current and former federal employees, across numerous government agencies, may have been stolen by Chinese hackers. It does not take a security expert to see a pattern taking place here. Most of the attacks allegedly from China over the past few years have gone after the personal information of US citizens, and there is no sign that this trend will diminish. It is fair to assume at this point in the game, China may have more accurate information on US citizens than the US itself.
Cloud security company OpenDNS has released a world-first data-driven Internet of Things report. Highlights include:
Consumer devices such as Dropcam Internet video cameras, Fitbit wearable fitness devices, Western Digital “My Cloud” storage devices, various connected medical devices, and Samsung Smart TVs continuously beacon out to servers in the US, Asia, and Europe–even when not in use.
IoT devices are actively penetrating some of the world’s most regulated industries including healthcare, energy infrastructure, government, financial services, and retail.
Though traditionally thought of as local storage devices, Western Digital cloud-enabled hard drives are now some of the most prevalent IoT endpoints observed. Having been ushered into highly-regulated enterprise environments, these devices are actively transferring data to insecure cloud servers.
The report also provides security professionals with recommendations for mitigating IoT-related risks found in their own networks.
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