Qognify, formerly NICE Security has been awarded a Gold Medal 2015 Security Innovation Award by Security Technology Executive Magazine (STE) for its collaboration with Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and system integrator AECOM on development of a solution that extends incident management capabilities out of the control room and into the field.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £200,000 for failing to encrypt police interviews about violent and sexual crimes stored on laptops that were later stolen. Some of the 43 interviews with victims and witnesses related to historical allegations against “a high-profile individual”, said UK data watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which handed down the penalty.
At one of its service depots, LU began a security upgrade project that needed to take into account the limitation imposed by the depot’s location while addressing the need to maintain 24 hour a day access with full audit of who has accessed the site and what equipment had been removed. LU were also keen to avoid using cumbersome pan-tilt-zoom cameras and external housings while still ensuring the site was always covered while using the least number of devices to increase reliability of the system.
Developers of the vBulletin software package for website forums released a security patch Monday night, just hours after reports surfaced that a hack on the developers' site leaked password data and other sensitive information belonging to almost 480,000 subscribers.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/vbulletin-password-hack-fuels-fears-of-serious-internet-wide-0-day-attacks/
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