A list of airlines from eight countries which are banned from flying in UK air space has been published. However, the names of two airlines banned by another European country in 2002 and still able to …
AMD touts anti-virus chips
AMD has ushered in the death of computer viruses with new chip technology, we are delighted to reveal. Marketing director at the microprocessor company, John Morris, told the Consumer Electronics Show …
How To Protect Yourself Against Hackers
Even before the Internet, computer security was a problem. In the 1986 movie War Games, we saw a young Matthew Broderick hacking his way into the computer that controls the U.S.' nuclear command and …
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Bugwatch: Keeping alien code at bay
Out-of-this-world network security. Each week vnunet.com asks a different expert to give their views on recent virus and security issues, with advice, warnings and information on the latest threats. …
U.S. Monitors Security for NFL Playoffs
Authorities were concerned with terrorism threats in the air and on the ground Saturday. The British government delayed a London-to-Washington flight for three hours and U.S. officials monitored …
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Flight Sent Back on Terror Fear, U.S. Officials Say
The American authorities in the last week directed a United States-bound flight from Mexico to turn around in midair and imposed extraordinary security measures on at least six other incoming flights …
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Anti-Smuggling War Goes 'Eye' Tech
This year, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) added a stethoscope-like instrument to its anti-smuggling tool kit. The $22,000 fibrescope, which has a miniature camera at its tip, lets ICA …
NYC Vows Most Guarded New Year's Eve Ever
Thousands of police will swarm New York's subways, sidewalks and airspace on what officials promised would be the city's most heavily guarded New Year's Eve ever. Some security measures — …
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Sky marshals draw flak from British Airways, pilots
Government plans to put gun-toting sky marshals on board British airliners flew into turbulence when British Airways and the main pilots' union said it would do "more harm than good" and put …
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Cyberterror: Clear and present danger or phantom menace?
Is cyberterrorism a real threat or just a distraction from the day-to-day job of maintaining network security? "Our enemies will use our technology against us...the fact that they may be from a Third …
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