transportation security in news
US plane security turns on batteries
News New rules from the US Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) that took effect in the US on 1 January ban travellers from carrying loose lithium batteries in checked baggage. Recently, the... [04 Jan 2008]
Are UK data laws fit for purpose?
News Mike Roberts, IT director for independent Harley Street hospital the London Clinic, said: "The use of encryption for the transmission and transportation of information should be tightened up. Which must then be weighed... [23 Nov 2007]
RFID: Brussels may yet reach for red tape
News Gerald Santucci, head of the European Commission unit whose domain includes RFID issues, said he feared rushing to place restrictions on industries hoping to use the technology would choke its potentially valuable application in... [03 Apr 2007]
Vista off-limits, say two US gov agencies
News Windows Vista has been banned by the US Department of Transportation (DoT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist). The organisation's technology staff is testing Nist applications and evaluating... [14 Mar 2007]
Fake airline boarding pass website shut down
News A spokeswoman for the FBI's Indianapolis office confirmed agents had searched Soghoian's home as part of a joint investigation with the US Transportation Security Administration. We are certainly... [31 Oct 2006]
ID theft fears for over 100,000 Floridians
News A US Department of Transportation laptop with personal information on 133,000 Florida residents has been stolen, exposing the data to identity fraud. The databases were being used in an investigation into the use of... [14 Aug 2006]
US ill-prepared for "cyber Katrina"
News Without proper planning, myriad industries - from healthcare to transportation to financial services - could face devastation if a natural disaster, terrorist or hacker succeeds in disrupting net access, they charged. [26 Jun 2006]
'Not again!': Iron Mountain loses back-up tapes
News Investigations by Iron Mountain in collaboration with the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) found the loss was probably an accident, although foul play was initially... [04 May 2006]
US turns to tech to shore up its ports
News The final piece of the Department's plan to secure the ports is being rolled out later this year; giving people who access ports ID badges with biometric identification called transportation worker identification... [20 Mar 2006]
Biometrics fuel transport IT spending
News IT spending in the transportation industry hit $6.4bn in 2005, and analyst IDC predicts this will grown to $7.7bn by 2009. Standardising the information flow among different IT platforms will be critical to supporting... [07 Feb 2006]
US push for more internal anti-terror data sharing
News Last year, the Transportation Security Administration took heat from government auditors for failing to disclose exactly how and why it had collected personal information on a quarter of a million... [18 Jan 2006]
Banks use IT to mitigate bird flu threat
News Organisations rely on IT to keep the business running, and they can leverage IT to ensure their business operations continue if travel and transportation restrictions, quarantines or problems with vendors or employees... [17 Jan 2006]
Could wireless kit foil airline hijacks?
News The proposed regulation, which is not yet final, grew out of an advisory panel that the Transportation Department created after the 11 September, 2001 terrorist attacks. Flight attendants may soon be outfitted with... [22 Sep 2005]
NYC subway gets $212m high-tech anti-terror scanners
News The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has chosen Lockheed as the prime contractor for the three-year deal to design and deploy a command and control-based critical infrastructure protection system... [25 Aug 2005]
Hacking fears spark power-plant security clampdown
News The current computer system used by utilities and public transportation facilities was not designed with the internet in mind, said Clarence Morey, senior manager for product strategy at Internet... [17 Aug 2005]
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