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whitepaper A software bomb is a piece of software that lurks in one's system undocumented or unsupported, but is ready to "Go off" at any time. A software bomb can be a simple program or a pervasive system. It's typically a piece of software written sometime...
[17 May 2008]
Photo Pictured is the WE177 air-launched nuclear bomb that entered service in Britain in 1966. The bomb replaced an earlier and larger British nuclear weapon and was originally intended for use by the Vulcan.
[01 May 2008]
whitepaper Terrorists might obtain a bomb in several ways, though each presents difficulties. Current ability to detect a bomb appears limited. This paper focuses on a possible terrorist nuclear attack on a U.S.seaport, a low-probability but high-consequence...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper By law, airlines must now remove bags from aircraft when a passenger fails to board, in case a terrorist again attempts to destroy an aircraft with a bomb in an unaccompanied, checked suitcase. McCarran International Airport in Nevada, USA brokered...
[10 Apr 2008]
News The mobile industry has hit back at a neurosurgeon's study that claimed there is evidence of a link between mobile phones and certain types of brain tumour. According to Dr Jack Rowley, director of research for the GSM Association, Dr Vini G...
[02 Apr 2008]
News Mobile phones could represent a public health time bomb akin to asbestos or smoking, according to a study by neurosurgeon Dr Vini G Khurana. It suggests there is growing evidence of a link between excessive long-term use of mobiles and certain...
[31 Mar 2008]
Photo There are already more than 1,000 Talon robots (pictured here) in service, mainly with US forces, ranging from remote-controlled fully armed reconnaissance bots, to bomb disposal units. Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may...
[26 Mar 2008]
Photo The IED simulates the noise and smoke of a real-life roadside bomb attack. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £250,000 on high-tech simulator equipment to provide more realistic training for frontline troops facing the threat of roadside and...
[22 Oct 2007]
Comment I put it down to the connotations of Hiroshima, the nuclear bomb tests of the 1950s and 60s, and of course Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and a slew of lesser accidents. Aha, I hear the doubters say: what about man-made radiation - nuclear bomb...
[20 Sep 2007]
whitepaper Finally, a possible application scenario of dirty bomb detection in a football stadium is briefly described. Location-awareness is an important requirement for many mobile wireless applications today.
[23 Aug 2007]
News One IT director - who wished to remain anonymous - at an organisation affected by the failed car bomb attacks in London last week said the "unknown event" is probably ahead of IT when it comes to risk management.
[05 Jul 2007]
Case Study Wheeler said the company now has a "core, stable and fairly bomb-proof platform". Since stockbroker Redmayne-Bentley revamped its IT infrastructure with a move to Linux the business has been reaping the rewards.
[18 May 2007]
whitepaper The test suite includes six different stress tests - a CPU intensive test, a memory intensive test, a disk intensive test, two network intensive tests (send and receive) and a fork bomb. In recent years, there have been a number of papers comparing...
[01 Apr 2007]
News I'm not persuaded that this isn't still a ticking time-bomb for Google's search engine. Google is changing its data retention practices to make it harder to identify the specific computers used in searches.
[15 Mar 2007]
News And, as the deadline loomed, many turned to India as a source of talent to get that ticking bomb defused. In the run up to the millennium companies were faced with fixing the date time-bomb they had unwittingly built into their computers years before.
[05 Mar 2007]
News The army is spending £65m on a fleet of 80 bomb disposal robots. Known as Cutlass, the six-wheeled remote-controlled robots will replace the 'Wheelbarrow' robots which have been used since the 1970s, when they were first used by bomb disposal...
[29 Dec 2006]
whitepaper There has been a lot of chatter over some of the newer activation and validation schemes that Microsoft may or may not implement with its new Vista operating system. Nobody at Microsoft is saying much, and a lot of bloggers and pundits are all over...
[10 Dec 2006]
Comment See what up-and-coming technology is being worked on in Cambridge - from bomb-sniffing chips to in-train entertainment systems. Which technologies and working styles will dominate the office of the future?
[15 Nov 2006]
Photo Chips that can sniff out explosives, in-train entertainment systems and mobile advertising are just some of the inventions that have been showcased at a Cambridge innovation centre. Funded by East of England Development Agency, the St John's...
[13 Nov 2006]
News Confusion had arisen over whether denial of service attacks were covered in the original CMA in the case of a teenager originally cleared in 2005 of crashing the email server of his former employer by overwhelming it with an 'email bomb...
[10 Nov 2006]
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