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RSS emergency warningStark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News In the US, the Department of Homeland Security National Cybersecurity Division has tripled its budget to $350m over the past two years to upgrade security systems protecting critical civilian networks and build up its US-Cert... [29 Oct 2008]
Forecasting tech blows away stormy weather
News The Met Office is also assembling a team of specialist forecasters who will use the latest technology to provide early warning and risk assessment to flood forecasters, emergency responders and those... [13 Jun 2008]
£4.2m flood alert tech raises the alarm
News The FWD system alerts emergency services simultaneously with residents, raising the alarm through telephone, fax, SMS, email or pager. People will be able to sign up for flood alerts online as part of a £4.2m deal to... [29 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The large red 'Scram' button in the centre of the control panel would shut down the reactor in the event of an emergency. The receiver/carrier WB400A was placed in police stations and emergency services... [01 May 2008]
Location-Based Flooding Techniques for Vehicular Emergency Messaging
White Paper Vehicle safety applications require reliable delivery of warning messages to nearby and approaching vehicles. This paper analyzes the scalability of message flooding protocols in networks with various node densities,... [10 Aug 2007]
Security warning over tech support tools
News The vulnerable tools are often used by ISPs, PC makers and others to provide support functions such as remote assistance, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-Cert) said in an alert. Multiple flaws in commonly... [27 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.01.07
Round-Up Interestingly New York has recently started enabling callers to its 911 emergency lines to send MMS messages in the shape of video and pictures. I could make a comfortable living doing this," she adds, before... [26 Jan 2007]
Life-saving car tech plan stalls
News The EC has called on member states to buck up their ideas over eCall, the system which will transmit details about a car's whereabouts and its owner to emergency services in the event of an accident. The system, which... [12 Dec 2006]
Talking CCTV shames litter louts
News The council is also looking into the possibility of using the talking CCTV as an aid to the emergency services - for example to clear an area quickly, or for directing the public when roads have been closed. [28 Nov 2006]
Mac OS X flaw: US gov adds warning
News The US computer emergency response team (US-Cert) issued an alert last week, reporting a failure in the way OS X handles corrupted disk image files - for Macs, the '.dmg' file format. Security from A to Z [27 Nov 2006]
US toys with emergency warning system update
News In an age of omnipresent mobile phone, internet and BlackBerry users, why does government rely primarily on analogue television and radio to beam its national emergency alerts? Michigan Republican Fred Upton, chairman of... [21 Jul 2006]
Taskforce aims to end NHS care records row
News The taskforce will be chaired by Harry Clayton, national director for patients and the public at the Department of Health, and members will include representatives from the British Medical Association, the College of... [20 Jul 2006]
US ill-prepared for "cyber Katrina"
News The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-Cert, which bears primary responsibility for co-ordinating responses to cyber attacks, receives on average $70m per year, or about 0.2 per cent of the entire US Department... [26 Jun 2006]
Clever cars put the brakes on accidents
News If all vehicles in the EU were equipped with automatic emergency call technology by 2010, road accident fatalities could be reduced by five to 15 per cent. But the EC is warning more work needs to be done. [22 Feb 2006]
Software glitch stalls Toyota's hybrid
News Manufacturers have replaced traditional emergency brakes and other parts with electronic devices in many models in the past few years. A software glitch in some 2004 and 2005 Priuses can make a warning... [17 Oct 2005]
