ASIS 2011: Jim Viscardi, VP Trace Detection and Millimeter Wave Sales, Smiths Detection
cbrne_detection Jim Viscardi reports that Smiths Detection is a world leader in the manufacturing of detection and imaging products that detect chemical weapons, toxic industrial materials, biological warfare agents, narcotics, radiation, nuclear materials and explosives. The company provides multiple technologies to multiple markets, he claims, segmenting by application and customer rather than by technology, a [...]
New Wave of HMRC Phishing Emails Hits Inboxes – Softpedia
Security researchers from Belgian email security provider MX Lab warn about a new wave of HMRC tax refund phishing emails that is currently hitting people’s email inboxes. The rogue emails have forged headers to appear as originating from a srvcs@hmrc.gov …
Spear phishing leads cyber attack wave: IBM – Computerworld Australia
Targeted attacks against enterprise networks are on the increase as cyber criminals change tactics, according to security experts. In its 2010 Trend and Risk Report , IBM security division, X-Force, noted that while phishing attacks had declined to a …
U.S. building next wave of supercomputers (Patrick Thibodeau/Computerworld)
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:U.S. building next wave of supercomputers — Two 20-petaflop systems planned for 2012, but China’s Tianhe-1A expected to rank No.1 on Top500 list this year — Computerworld – The U.S. is building two 20-petaflop supercomputers, many times more powerful than anything operating today …
More Facebook Users Hit by Second Wave of Video Attacks – Kansas City infoZine
image courtesy of Sophos The rogue Facebook application then posts the same message to users’ Facebook friends, spreading the video link across the social network. Sophos estimates that hundreds of thousands of Facebook users found themselves under …
