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Border Security Systems: The Hungarian Case Study
White Papers Over the past ten years, Hungary has re-organized the structure of its Border Guard, changing it from a military organization with staff that is enrolled, into a police organization with solely professional staff.
[July 31, 2009, 1:35]
Researchers exploit web protocol to hijack traffic
News Security researchers have warned of an underlying security issue concerning the Border Gateway Protocol, the core internet routing protocol. In a presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier this month, researchers Alex Pilosov and Tony...
[August 27, 2008, 15:27]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Protecting Our Southern Border Against the Terrorist Threat
White Papers Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Customs and Border Protection have taken a number of steps to increase security across our borders during the "period of increased...
[January 14, 2009, 4:30]
Schneier: 'Zero benefit' from US border biometrics
News Security expert and BT chief security-technology officer Bruce Schneier has attacked the US-Visit border-biometrics programme, saying it has had "zero benefit" in terms of security. However, Robert Jamison, undersecretary at the US Department of...
[November 4, 2008, 12:02]
EC plans biometric border checks
News Visitors to Europe will face biometric screening and automated security checks under proposals for a shake-up of EU border controls. Automated border-control systems and guards would be able to check visitors' identities using the biometric data...
[February 15, 2008, 7:20]
UK to share fingerprints with Canada, Australia
News The US and New Zealand, the other members of the Five Country Conference border-security group, are expected to join the project. This new agreement will help us identify and remove individuals whose identities were previously unknown but also...
[August 21, 2009, 15:41]
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]
SMobile Security Shield Parental Edition for BlackBerry
Downloads Handango Androidbody {margin: 0;background-color: #D0D8CD;scrollbar-base-color: #C9D1C6;color: #000000;}A:link {text-decoration: underline;color: #696A97;}A:hover {text-decoration: underline;color: #CC3300;}A:active {text-decoration: none;color...
[December 16, 2008, 6:00]
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]
Tories pledge to end the database state
News We want to improve border security without being intrusive. Certain areas where data is being recorded will not see much change, especially in border protection. Appoint a minister and senior civil servant in each government ministry with...
[September 16, 2009, 16:22]
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]
Inside Firefox 3's security features review
Reviews Notice the red Border Guard icon in the upper left-hand corner (more on him later). Clicking the icon, you see colour-coded 'Larry', Mozilla's new border guard. Security within Firefox 3 Security takes front and centre in the new release of Firefox.
[June 18, 2008, 11:08]
Does offshoring or outsourcing increase the data privacy challenge?
Blog For those professionals working in multi-national organisations, the topic of cross border data movement and data protection zones are not new. The offshoring and outsourcing risk assessment may then reveal that existing cross border and service...
[June 22, 2009, 10:56]
Microsoft: Customised security is safer
News The border of a secured page may contain information -- such as the names of all the dogs that someone has ever owned -- to make the data instantly recognisable as sound to the individual owner, as well as difficult to replicate.
[May 9, 2003, 9:07]
Expert warns of cracks in e-Borders security
News A UK Border Agency spokesman said the approach of checking passenger details before they travel to Britain had already proved its worth. The UK Border Agency has a network of immigration liaison officers working closely with airlines and...
[March 30, 2009, 17:06]
Security flaws jeopardise online banking - survey
News One of the main router vulnerabilities is allowing unrestricted access to services on border routers, which could leave a firm open to denial of service attacks. Resilience border routers can still be easily taken out, said Hills: "These resilient...
[August 21, 2003, 10:50]
Threat from TCP hole 'small' - researcher
News Sites that have routers that share information on the most efficient paths through the Internet -- using the Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP -- are most vulnerable to the attacks. However -- and here's the issue -- Watson found that certain...
[April 22, 2004, 9:05]
IBM surveillance could monitor borders
News It's a long border. But IBM has also been in talks to possibly manage an S3 system in places along the US-Mexico border. While IBM does not name specific security customers, the surveillance system has been in use by several governments, law...
[November 7, 2006, 9:26]
Biometric checks get air-passenger approval
News The average time to fully enrol a traveller was seven minutes and the self-service border clearance gate recorded an average time of 17 seconds to let passengers through. More than 3,000 traveller records were transferred to the Border and...
[June 21, 2007, 12:12]
G8 nations team up to fight cyber-crime
News The cross-border nature of computer networks makes it relatively easy for offenders to store information in other jurisdictions and to move or erase it quickly to elude seizure. They also want to improve cross border communication and co-operation...
[May 18, 2000, 11:03]
