SECURITY TODAY

The U.S. House has passed legislation designed to make it harder for terrorists to rent cars and trucks to use to carry out attacks. The bill, which passed, 379-51, is named for Darren Drake...

A prior permission is required from the Qatar’s Security Systems Department (SSD) at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to import closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras from abroad. “The importer is required to provide specification of...

Dust has become a huge problem in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, by covering the CCTV lenses and in turn blurring the images. According to a report , nearly 2,000 CCTV cameras have been installed in the...

The Supreme Court has said that hospitals are not police stations and it cannot direct for installing CCTV cameras in every ward of all the hospitals in the country as issues of privacy are...

Analogic has secured a $198.4m contract to supply and install its checkpoint security screening systems at airports across the US. Awarded by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the multi-year contract is part of TSA’s...

Three courses — Digital Fluency, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security — will become part of the higher education curriculum in Karnataka. They will be made available free of cost to non-Computer Science college students...

Canadian airport security agents may soon be screening more than your luggage. The federal government is mulling handing responsibility for verifying passengers’ vaccination status to airport officers, rather than airlines — which hope to skip...

As many as 14,000 high security registration plates (HSRPs) have gone missing from the Ghaziabad warehouse of the Rosemerta Safety Systems Private Limited. Police said they have registered an FIR against two employees of...

Moscow Metro has rolled out new facial recognition technology, allowing customers to pay for rides using only their faces, The Guardian reported. The new service, Face Pay, requires riders to upload their photo, bank...

To improve the fire safety systems in medical institutions, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed to install smoke detectors and extractor systems at 16 civic hospitals. The decision comes after a fire tragedy...