CACI, AOptix Developing Smartphone Biometric Device
In a recent $3 million Defense Department contract, CACI International and California-based technology firm AOptix will develop a biometric identification system for mobile devices. According to a Wired article, the technology is meant to allow soldiers in the field to record facial features, iris scans and other details of people up close or from a distance using commercially [...]
Potential security flaws of Apple’s iCloud service were recently exposed following the hacking of a Wired technology journalist’s account. Mat Hanon recounted details of the hacking that compromised his Twitter account and erased data on his Apple devices including a Macbook, iPad and iPhone. The hacker, a 19-year-old male who calls himself Phobia, said the [...]
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Gartner recently released a new technology report titled, “Gartner Raises IT Spending Growth Projection on Cloud Services” Wired.com’s Cloudline reports. The technology research company reveals global IT spending has exceeded forecast growth, reporting numbers that may reach a 3 percent increase or $3.6 trillion in 2012. Telecom service is reportedly the most notably emerging economy [...]
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A water pump at a Springfield, Ill. utility failed Nov. 8. Usually this would be considered a technical difficulty, but this failure has raised eyebrows of the federal government. Joe Weiss, a cybersecurity expert, disclosed the incident on his blog Thursday and pointed the finger at foreign cyber attackers. Now the U.S. Department of Homeland [...]
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Researchers are now warning that vulnerabilities in the electronic infrastructures of prisons could allow hackers to release prisoners from their jail cells. According to Wired, security consultant and engineer John Strauchs said some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran exist in the country’s [...]
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