Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
PHONESafe is a revolutionary solution to keep you mobile phones secure. It is able to remotely lock your phone, backup and wipe information from your phone and even track the SIM card inserted in your phone.
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
A team of experts at Cambridge University have come up with a virtually foolproof way of stealing a consumer’s details. They reprogrammed a hand-held chip and Pin machine to allow them access to card details and Pins. It would be simple to swap their rigged machine for one in a store.
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Attention, all OSA friends, Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D., is about to leave for Phoenix, where she and other advocates will be briefing the Arizona state legislature on privacy issues associated with new remotely-readable, spychipped “enhanced” driver’s licenses. If you are in the area, you are invited to join us on Thursday evening for a public town hall meeting on the topic sponsored by the Arizona ACLU tomorrow night. As you may know, several states, including Arizona, Washington, Verm
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
A few days ago, Konica Minolta had announced the bizhub Pro 950 to headline its new products and solutions for 2009. Apparently that was just the tip of the iceberg as Konica Minolta has announced the company will highlight their latest products and technologies at the 2009 ON DEMAND Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia, PA this week (March 31-April 2). Among the other products in their lineup included: bizhub PRO C65hc – With vivid color quality, the bizhub PRO C65hc (which
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
London: Hundreds of people living near the Excel centre have been told to carry photo identification as the Met steps up security ahead of the G20 summit.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
March 28 – April 3, 2009 Saturday, March 28 - Invasive Species Removal Volunteer Event The City of Alexandria invites residents to take part in a Citywide “Ivy Pull” from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers are needed to remove ivy plants from various locations throughout the City. There is no need for tools, though small pruners might come in handy to clip vines off trees. The runners of ivy are easily pulled as they run across the landscape. Gloves are highly recommended. For more information, contact
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
British people will now need identity cards to travel around so that police can try and control the internal terrorist threat - thanks to decades of Tory and Labour immigration policies which have created a massive Third World population from which Islamic extremists can draw recruits. The new anti-terror laws mean that passengers on ferries to the Isle of Wight, the Scottish islands (such as Mull and Skye) and Belfast will soon have to carry identity papers. In addition, British people flying
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Gone are the days of carrying bunch of keys for opening doors. Gone are the days of keeping separate keys for separate locks. Now you would be able to unlock all the doors and cases without the help of any key. The idea is not new and has been in use for quite some time but slowly and steadily it is becoming popular and coming in people’s eye. Right! We are talking about biometric door locks. Biometric locks provide an entirely new level of interface with extreme ease & security. The most
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
We know that there was a lot of concerns popping up in the comments following Andrew Nordbruch’s reporting of the Mail on Sunday’s piece saying that extended police powers could require all people travelling to and from the Isle of Wight on the ferries to have their personal data logged. Jonathan Green, Sales & Marketing Director of Red Funnel got in touch with us with a just-issued clarification by the Home Office. The key point for the Island - The Home Office has “no plans to exte
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
According to a member of the House of Representatives, the use of Social Security Cards to forge one's identity is going up and this costs the National economy 50 billion a year.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Do you need a secured credit card? Find out if one will benefit you and how you go about getting one.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Gemalto selected for the second phase of Saudi Arabia’s National ID Card initiative Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 30, 2009 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announced it is delivering electronic ID cards to the National Information Center (NIC), the IT entity of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior. The Identification Card-Phase 2 program extends the country’s initial electronic ID initiative launched in Decembe
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
By Jim Kouri, CPP Mexico’s Version of La Cosa Nostra Spreads Like Wildfire The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, according to public court documents filed by the U.S. government in Colorado and in other judicial districts around the country. Several of the senior leaders of the organization are believed to be based in Mexico, although
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
President Obama: We hear that your new team is having challenges in getting their Macs integrated into the White House network. Some recent news stories mentioned application compatibility as one of the hassles, but we'd be willing to bet that the bigger challenge is security.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Gemalto provides national E-ID cards to Saudi Arabia
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
HUNDREDS of people living near the Excel centre have been told to carry photo identification as the Met steps up security ahead of the G20 summit.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
The Fond du Lac Police Department is the first law enforcement agency in Wisconsin to offer Safe Kids Card, a wallet-size CD identification card that holds emergency and medical information, photographs and fingerprints.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Also known as secured credit cards, prepaid Canadian credit cards are especially created for residents of Canada. It is interesting to note that there is a difference between secured credit cards and prepaid cards. One major difference is that a prepaid credit cardholder is not given a credit line.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
British passengers on ferries to the Isle of Wight and Scottish islands such as Mull and Skye will soon have to carry identity papers to comply with new police anti-terror powers. And travellers flying between British cities or to Northern Ireland face having their personal data logged when booking tickets and checking in. Until now ferry passengers on most routes in Britain have not been required to produce ID and internal flight passengers only face random police checks. But under new Governm
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Local American Indians say they shouldn't be forced to comply when new passport requirements go into effect on June 1 along the U.S. border with Canada.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announced it is delivering
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
AMSTERDAM & RIYADH, Saudi Arabia----Gemalto , the world leader in digital security, today announced it is delivering electronic ID cards to the National Information Center , the IT entity of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Call me a dork , but I've been "eyeballing" a teacher's ID/lanyard for a while. They're very similar to eyeglass holders, but since I have Transitions I can't use that excuse to buy one. So I got to thinking, I have beads & stuff, I can make one ! Well here it is! Whatcha think? Now I've gotta buy an ID holder.
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Thanks to VB reader Andrew Nordbruch for sending in this comment on an article he caught sight of this afternoon. New contributions are always welcome at VB. Ed I was passed a link to a news story on the Daily Mail’s website this afternoon, regarding new anti-terrorism measures and the Isle of Wight. My initial reaction was that it was an April Fool’s joke (and I still hope it is!). But it’s in today’s Mail on Sunday paper too, and it’s a bit early for an 1st April joke. The news story s
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
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