Curbing boozing and double doctor time

Monday greetings, and welcome to your first I4S missive of the week. This one is short and sweet, like a well-mannered nephew, or something. Nothing at all like an angry dog.
We kick off with the door supervisor community and their pledge to help curb underage drinking this festive period. Good work, chaps!
Then we have the [...]

The security week: Fraud, advice, and naked scanning

It’s the end of another week of security news exploration – boldly going where no other security information portal would ever dare, or try, discovering new security stars and planets, and just generally expanding humanity’s knowledge base. So that’s good.
Appropriately enough, we kicked off the week with an article with the word ‘kickstart’ in its [...]

Doctors and fraud

High! It’s time for the first of this week’s daily digestible news chunklets. More words to follow.
And here they are! We’ve gone Doctor crazy today, with not one but two advice-giving medicos on hand to help out with all of your security ailments. First up is our CCTV Doctor, who is looking at entry-level IP [...]

Doctors and Bench Tests

Welcome to the very first August 2009 edition of these newslettery things.
In case you missed it on Friday, the nominees for the 2009 Security Excellence Awards have been announced. Go have a look – then feel free to book your place at the big event.
Also on the site today is our latest Bench Test. This [...]

The security week: The wild west edition

Yeehar, pardners. It’s time to saddle up etc and mosey or somesuch into The Security Week. Giddy up.
First cowpoke off the rank (I believe this is the correct expression) is London’s Metropolitan Police, who are launching their PREFIT Forum today, to aid in reducing employee theft.
There’s also a bunch of chaps in this company, UKB [...]

Sharks, MI6, doctors, swine flu

Info4security is packed to the rafters today with quality security news action. It’s causing the same levels of excitement as would occur if a shark were let loose in the canals of Venice.
Let’s begin with national security, shall we? OK then. How about a story on the new chief of MI6? That seems to fit [...]

The security week: A free webinar – and security on the move

OMG! A week of security news thrills, excitement and out of this world informations! Good Friday kept us out of your inbox last week, but we’re now back, baby. Back!
First up: we’re giving away a free webinar! That’s right, FREE. A webinar is like an internet (‘web’) seminar (‘inar’), and is one of the uglier [...]

CCTV Doctor, and Swedish analytics

Hello. Our shapeshifting CCTV Doctor is back in action today – this time he’s answering a reader question on CCTV being used in a publicly parked car. Whatever next?
Video analytics and Sweden go together like trampolining dwarves and the avoidance of yawning hippopotami. So, unsurprisingly, here is a story about video analytics being used there [...]

Sims opinion, and Commonwealth embarrassment

SMT Online editor Brian Sims has pulled no punches today in his forthright analysis of the recent killings in Northern Ireland and anti-military protest in Luton. Read his arguments in his SMT Online Editor’s View.
Over on our I4S India channel, there’s a story about the security plans for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games being stolen. [...]

Metal theft action time – and the Doctor is in

Today’s top news story manages to cram in some of the most exciting subjects known to man – metal theft; SmartWater; recycling; and rave-tastic photography. It’s only about a scrap metal recycling company using SmartWater’s forensic technology to check if its incoming metal has been stolen! Nice.
Another exciting thing is our dashing and debonair CCTV [...]