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Girls lock-up quantum security
Quantum computers, besides offering substantial computational speedups, are also expected to preserve the privacy of a computation.
GSS gets Royal Warrant
Global Secure Systems (GSS), the security practice of cloud services MTI and acquired in 2011, has been granted a Royal Warrant as provider of data security services and products to Her Majesty The Queen. The Royal Warrant was granted from 1st January 2012 and and joins 850 Royal Warrant holders.
Pervasive TPVM coming
Canada's interactive entertainment strengths, with a host of other applications, take a step forward with a new technology Temporal PsychoVisual Modulation (TPVM) developed by Professor Xiaolin Wu and Guangtao Zhai at Mc Master University, where a single 3D display screen can show multiple image streams, which the viewers can choose, using a controller and LCD glasses.
Shetland fish farm cages adrift
Shetland coast guard is calling for help as 12 100 foot diameter salmon farm cages, belonging to Lakeland Unst Ltd fish farms have broken loose and are being carried towards Norway. These represent both a shipping and environmental hazard with the scale of break out carrying vast risks to wild salmon stocks in their mating with farmed fish.
Sounds get cloaked
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology scientists have applied the 'invisible cloak' principles to sound waves, creating what could perhaps be described as a "silence cloak."
Tayside scam computer lock-down
Tayside Police has been made aware of a number of incidents involving an internet scam, where members of the public who are online receive a pop-up message claiming to be from Strathclyde Police.
Biometric information interchange: data format
A revised biometric standard published in November, "Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information" vastly expands types and amount of information that forensic scientists can share across their international networks to identify victims or solve crimes.
Innovation: lightweight oxygen generator
A lightweight oxygen generator, developed to save lives on the frontline has won the award for Best Collaboration in the category of Defence and Security at The Engineer Technology and Innovation Awards 2011 for Cambridge Design Partnership, in conjunction with the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE).
MOD should fund security hackers
While games seem to be a glamour, money-winning sector, software and the garage development arena, sometimes dubbed incubators, are also fabulously fertile places for inventions to develop, probably because they are created by like or dissimilar minds, teamed together to achieve amazing things. Time perhaps for organised commerce to stretch out an interested hand? Well in the US, DARPA certainly thinks so.
Mobile is biggest security threat
Hundreds of world’s hackers descended on Miami for Hacker Halted 2011 to learn about the latest hacks that will hit your IT systems in the coming months. Among them was UK's Firebrand Training on a fact-finding mission, and to add the latest techniques to its Ethical Hacking course.
Ecology approach to holograpy
Finnish research centre VTT has developed a cost-effective printable, holographic-like film technology for plastic and fibre based packaging that will provide brand protection for packaging and consumer products. Its ability to create colours mimics the light-bending approach of butterflies.
IndigoVision recovers
Difficult trading is offset by improved rate of introducing new products and overseas markets growth in Latin America and Asia Pacific helping to offset Europe, Middle East, North America and Africa
Spanner in the renewable works
Citigroup has urged extreme caution over investing in Scotland's renewable energy sector, partly because of the independence referendum uncertainty, and partly because the £4bn subsidy could not be generated from Scotland alone.
New fingerprinting techniques
New fingerprinting techniques being developed in Dundee will be discussed at a Café Science event.
Technology advances forensics
Three developments in forensics spell out better and faster results for crime scene investigation. Sheffield Hallam University uses mass spectrometry for fingerprint analysis. The Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) and the Technology Foundation (STW) funds research that concludes such excellence of matching between sample’s reflectance and blood component could allow crime scene blood ID by remote spectroscopy for analysis speed. In a completely different approach, Abertay University's Professor Bremner is using a specialised oven, where heating gold and zinc under high vacuum causes a reverse or negative image deposition of the finger/hand print on a garment, as well as discovering the DNA.
Two in three flout IT policies
According to a report published by Mitel, provider of unified communications software solutions, which recently launched Unified Communicator Advanced software for the iOS mobile operating system on Apple iPhones and iPads, UK IT departments are struggling to accommodate insatiable end-user demands.
Caveat for industrial control systems
Symantec records on its website that a research lab with strong international connections alerted it to a sample that appeared to be very similar to Stuxnet. W32.Duqu, a remote access trojan (RAT) is a Stuxnet precursor.
Android 3 gets defense secure
It's not just Fraunhofer working on Smartphone security. A research team from Google, George Mason University and the National Security Agency have developed a hardened kernel for the Android 3.0 operating system that could solve the problem of using smart phones in military operations and emergency response.
Finance stays current on fraud
Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE), Logica and Edinburgh Napier University have teamed up to tackle fraud with the "Prevention of ‘Scarlett Johansson moments," namely the loss of highly personal files, nude photographs, of celebrity Scarlett Johansson, who appears to have had her iPhone hacked. And a new defraud springs up for those who mistype website addresses.
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