Integrating Intelligence For Border Security
White Papers Binding all sources of information into an objective and lucid decision algorithm can provide clarity to identify signatures that strongly and uniquely indicate terrorist activities, thus reducing false alarms that conjure images of profiling and...
[November 6, 2004, 2:00]
Home Office Denies E-passports Can Be Faked
News The newspaper stated that the chips can be cloned and manipulated within minutes, and accepted as genuine by the computer systems used at border controls. The photograph, held on the chip as well as on the printed document, can be used to link a...
[August 7, 2008, 9:00]
Biometrics Beyond Borders
News While many countries have beginning to investigate biometric passports and start trials of border control systems, the US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US VISIT) programme, is one of the few live deployments and remains the...
[October 25, 2005, 10:50]
Portuguese Ministry Migrates Security Communications To Single Infrastructure
White Papers The Portuguese Ministry of Homeland Security is responsible for civil protection and border control, two branches of the police, fire, and rescue services, and road safety. Traditionally, its branches have been highly independent, with separate...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
Preventing Security And Privacy Attacks On Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs)
White Papers Congress resolved to bring about a major overhaul of the immigration process at border posts by passing the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002. The Technical Advisory Group of the International Civil Aviation Organization...
[October 9, 2008, 1:20]
Government Pushes Forward With E-Borders
News Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, described the changes as the most sweeping to UK border security for decades. The Home Office has announced that a new UK Border Agency will unite immigration, customs and visa checks, backed by a £1.2bn passenger...
[November 19, 2007, 12:14]
Japanese Group Wants More Human Faces Scanned
News This chip is then read and matched to the owner's face at border checkpoints. Biometric security such as facial-recognition systems has become more commonplace in public areas, and bodies such as the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO...
[June 24, 2003, 14:39]
Computer Crime Treaty Threatens Human Rights
News A cross border legal framework for investigating and prosecuting international high-tech crime is seen as vital to tackling the problem. An international coalition of 28 human rights and civil liberties groups has called on the Council of Europe to...
[October 19, 2000, 7:41]
White House Preps Cybersecurity Plan
News One Internet protocol the draft singles out for criticism is the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is used to exchange routing information among interconnected networks. It says the executive branch should consult with privacy groups and attempt...
[September 17, 2002, 15:19]
Hackers To Release Anti-censorship Tool
News Ian Brown, a computer security researcher at University College London, believes that Peekabooty could prove a success once restricted material gets past Chinese Internet border controls and reaches the first host.
[April 30, 2001, 13:29]
Defra Equips Staff With 'green' Laptops
News In her evidence to the committee, Ghosh said that Defra has donated a "substantial amount" of hardware to the newly formed UK Border Agency, as a result of having hardware to spare through its upgrading programme.
[July 21, 2008, 9:23]
EU Passports Get Biometric Data
News The US Enhanced Border Security and Visa Reform Act of 2002 states that these countries should issue "machine-readable passports that are tamper-resistant and incorporate biometric identifiers that comply with applicable biometric identifiers...
[July 18, 2003, 15:27]
Homeland Security Bill Becomes US Law
News Together, these agencies -- the list includes the Secret Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Coast Guard and the Border Patrol -- employ about 170,000 people. The law also: requires all federal agencies, including the CIA, the...
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
Gov't: Terrorists Increasingly Exploiting Tech
News In a speech at the Homeland & Border Security Conference 2008 in London on Thursday, Admiral Lord West, parliamentary undersecretary of state for security and counter-terrorism, said that terrorists were increasingly harnessing technology to try...
[July 3, 2008, 14:54]
