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Voice recordings from domestic violence alerting app exposed on the internet

A smartphone app, disguised as a regular app delivering the top world, sports, and entertainment news, containing a secret feature that allows victims of domestic abuse to send a covert distress call for help at the touch of a button.

What could possibly go wrong?

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Senstar’s innovative solution enables real-time alerting for wildlife on highways

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Senstar’s OmniTrax
can detect a deer

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has put into operation, and continues to test, the first-in-the-U.S. detection system that alerts drivers in real time of wildlife on highways that could cause grave risks to motorists.

The system should replace the existing, widely used, but ineffective method of static signs that inform drivers of the potential wildlife risk, rather than informing them of the real and immediate presence of animals.

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