New bug leaves 800,000 Surveillance Cameras vulnerable to hacking

Tenable Research, a cybersecurity company and creators of the “world’s first Cyber Exposure platform,” have discovered two critical vulnerabilities that leave up 800,000 surveillance...

New safety audit to map public spaces in Delhi, spot problems

The Delhi government has said that a pan-city safety audit – to find infrastructure problems in public spaces across the national capital – will...

Airport security flies high at US$ 16Bn by 2024

The airport security market is predicted to grow at 7% CAGR from 2017 to 2024. According to a new research report by the market...

IBM created Facial Recognition Software with racial profiling options for NYPD

IBM secretly used video surveillance images collected by the New York Police Department (NYPD) to develop facial recognition software that can identify individuals based...

Mumbai will soon have its own fire-fighting robot for Rs 92 lakh

The next time a blaze erupts in Mumbai, you might see a thermal-camera-assisted robot doing the firefighting. If the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) gives...

After Jet Airways controversy, Suresh Prabhu orders safety audit of all airlines and airports

Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu has ordered a safety audit of all scheduled airlines and airports, amid recent incidents related to safety of passengers....

Majority of U.S. homeowners are unprepared for disasters

Despite the U.S. experiencing its highest number of billion-dollar disasters in 2017, a new survey found two-thirds of American homeowners are still unprepared in...

Prama Hikvision India signs MOU with Andhra Pradesh Government

Prama Hikvision India has announced plans to invest Rs.500 crore in a manufacturing facility for electronic security and surveillance products in Andhra Pradesh. The...

‘One bullet, one terrorist’: CISF men at Delhi airport undergo target practise

Not just commandos, every Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel deployed at the Delhi airport is being trained to become a sharpshooter. Learning from...

Bulletproof Backpack aims to protect children against school shootings

An Israeli company says it has come up with a first-of-its-kind protection gear against the threat of school shootings — a bulletproof backpack. Masada-Armour...