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Nuance: Consumers Have Fraud Concerns with Current Methods of Identity Verification When Accessing Their Accounts

According to a Nuance Communications research, close to 60% of UK consumers admit to forgetting security passwords, and 80% believe there are security gaps in the methods currently in place for confirming identity when accessing their phone and banking accounts. The 2008 Secure Identification Survey conducted for Nuance by Harris Interactive contains responses from over 500 consumers over 18 years of age who have interacted with customer service in the past 12 months. The 25-minute survey fo... [more]

NUUO: NUUO surveillance software helps secure Jakarta public transportation

Since January 2004, the Indonesian government started to build up TransJakarta buses lines with their own private lanes, in order to ensure their citizens against unnecessary waste of time from traffic jam. This construction encouraged a fast growth of economic activities, and the lines were expanded immediately to 7 lines. As the capital and largest city of Indonesia with more than 23 million people, Jakarta's metropolitan transportation plays a vital role for dispersing high density of popu... [more]

Niscayah: Niscayah becomes preferred electronic security systems partner for Vaultex UK

Niscayah has announced it has been contracted as the preferred electronic security systems partner for facilities under the control of Vaultex UK Limited, the newly established cash handling management company providing services to a number of the UK's leading financial institutions. This is the first contract won by Niscayah Limited, the new name (from 1 June 2008) for the former Bell Security Limited - the UK’s leading provider of securit... [more]

Northamptonshire Police: New techniques for identifying prints on metal

The University of Leicester’s Forensic Research Centre has been working with Northamptonshire Police’s scientific support unit to develop new ways of taking fingerprints from a crime scene. Forensic scientists at the University of Leicester, working with Northamptonshire Police, have announced a major breakthrough in crime detection which could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened. Researchers in the University Department of Chemistry and the Police’s scientific support unit have ... [more]

Niscayah: Bell Security becomes Niscayah

1 June 2008 saw the official birth of a new name in UK security and fire systems provision – Niscayah Limited. The date marked the culmination of the visual identity change and renaming process for the staff and offices of the former Bell Security. The business, established in 1986, announced at the turn of the year that it would follow its parent, Niscayah Group (formerly Securitas Systems), into the new branding programme designed to prov... [more]

National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre NISCC: Chinese hackers target Belgian computer systems

Belgian ministers have complained that Chinese hackers are targeting their country's computer systems. According to media reports, Justice Minister Jo Vandeurzen has claimed that hacking attacks against the Belgian Federal Government have originated in China, and are likely to have been at the bequest of the Beijing Government. Separately, Belgian minister of foreign affairs Karel De Gucht has told parliament that his ministry was the subject of cyberespionage by Chinese agents several weeks ... [more]