Technologies
NETAVIS Upgrades NVR to Combat Shellshock/Bashdoor
Shellshock, also known as Bashdoor, is a family of security bugs within Linux and Mac OS X which was disclosed in the end of September. This vulnerability of the Unix Bash shell is also part of CentOS, the operating system which is the base of NETAVIS Observer Bundled versions. To close this security vulnerability, NETAVIS updated the Unix Bash shell in the software version Observer 4.5.2 which is ready for download at www.netavis.net.
NVR Units Are Vulnerable to Shellshock/Bashdoor
Due to many video surveillance NVR recording devices implementing Linux and Unix-derivative operating systems, SecurityHive thought it was important to post information about this known security vulnerability. If you have an IP-based NVR solution in your environment, we encourage you to contact your manufacturer to determine if you need to take action to protect your system from this known issue.
DNF Security Unified Concept Reduces Long Term Storage Infrastructure Costs in Video Surveillance
Data Storage in enterprise video surveillance environments demands never ending quest for IT efficiency. This is due to the fact that it has to satisfy the needs related to performance, reliability, and data integrity in a definitive way.
How Can 4K Resolution Help Enterprise Video Surveillance
Video Surveillance sector is witnessing a new trend and that is increased interest in adopting 4K video technology. But do you think that 4K video technology will help an enterprise to watch for intruders, monitor the premises, and even assist with court cases where a theft or a break-in has occurred?
Meyertech and SilverNet Agree to Technology Partnership
Meyertech is one of just a few companies globally who can provide ‘mixed technology’ hybrid solutions that incorporate both analogu and digital IP-cameras. The integration between the two British manufacturer’s respective offerings further enhances Meyertech’s ability to be at the heart of an integrated end-to-end video surveillance solution.
RISCO Group Releases VUpoint Live Video Verification Solution
Global integrated security solutions provider RISCO Group, has released VUpoint, a revolutionary new video verification solution that seamlessly integrates with RISCO security systems to provide a combined intruder detection and video verification solution. Utilizing RISCO IP-cameras and cloud connectivity, the highly cost-effective VUpoint solution is designed for use within RISCO’s Agility 3 and LightSYS 2 intrusion systems.
Video Surveillance: Analog?s Midlife Crisis
Think fast: Your customer’s DVR has crashed. It’s beyond resuscitation. What do you do? If you haven’t faced this dilemma already, you are bound to sooner or later, because the average life expectancy of a DVR is about half that of an analog camera. Welcome to the midlife crisis of an analog system. The stakes keeps mounting. Perhaps the DVR is out of warranty. Maybe the DVR manufacturer is not even in business anymore. What do you do? Before your client rushes to purchase another DVR, consider this: over the course of an analog CCTV system’s life, they will have to replace every single DVR at least once, if not more.
New Viakoo Mobile App Extends Ability to Eliminate Missing Video and Reduce Downtime Anywhere, Anytime
Viakoo, the first and only automated solution to effectively eliminate missing video and reduce surveillance downtime, is launching a new mobile app that delivers the full functionality of their innovative software into the palm of every user?s hand – wherever they are. Combined with Viakoo?s experienced technical support team, users have all the resources they need to effectively detect, diagnose, and solve video system performance issues.
3xLOGIC’s New VIGIL Trends Changes Organizational Decision Making
3xLOGIC, Inc., a leading provider of integrated intelligent security solutions, announced the release of VIGIL Trends, a new productivity tool that provides key stakeholders the critical data needed to make real-time, informed decisions. VIGIL Trends provides a clean, simple visual snapshot of any organization?s operations. Leveraging unique icons, graphs, and intuitive color-grouped images, Trends organizes […]
An Ounce of Prevention: Preserving Information Confidentiality in a Digital Economy
While the Internet has redefined how individuals and organizations access and share information globally, it also has made them more susceptible to theft of classified and confidential digital information. Most business development and activity occurs online, making information easier to steal and transfer anonymously.
The Costs of Mobile Isolation in Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs)
If you?ve ever worked in a SCIF or another secure facility where mobile technology is prohibited, you know the pains of being isolated from the outside world. Not only are you stuck in an often windowless, sterile room for hours upon hours, day after day, but you?re digitally cut off from the rest of the world.
Hikvision Achieves Risk Management Framework Certification From U.S. Army
The most impressive aspect of this installation is its Certificate of Networthiness, as awarded by the United States Department of Defense. "Very few products and systems, past or present, carry this elite designation and meet the requirements of the RMF (and, previously, DIACAP) certification processes," affirmed Chris Nickelson, co-owner of NexGen. "Hikvision equipment and support stand apart from the competitors," added Dennis Deschler, NexGen co-owner.
Southwest Microwave?s Remote Polling Module II SDK Simplifies INTREPID High Level Interface
Southwest Microwave has expanded Software Development Kit (SDK) options for its INTREPID? Series II perimeter intrusion detection systems (PIDS) with the addition of the Remote Polling Module II (RPM II) SDK. The RPM II package, consisting of an IP-based application layer protocol and accompanying system control hardware module, provides simplified high-level interface between third-party physical security information management (PSIM) or surveillance systems and INTREPID? detection technologies.
PSIA Details Milestones Achieved in Physical Logical Access Interoperability (PLAI) Specification
The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) today announced it has achieved important new milestones within its Physical Logical Access Interoperability (PLAI) specification less than a year after forming a Working Group to develop it. PLAI is being designed to enable employee identities and roles defined or revoked in an authoritative logical identity system to automatically propagate to one or more PLAI-compliant physical access control systems (PACS). PLAI synchronizes physical and logical identity management and access control and standardizes functions that typically have required custom programming to achieve.
China?s ZNV Launches World?s First H.265 High-Definition IP-Camera
How often do you have to wait for a video image to load on your screen? A major break-through has been made to overcome video surveillance bandwidth and storage challenges that the security and surveillance industry has been facing for years. The industry has entered a new era with highly-anticipated new generation of IP-cameras that have inbuilt the state-of-art video image compression technology complying with the new H.265 international standard.
Embedded Vision Enters Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Market
This is a Research Note from Niall Jenkins, Research Manager for Embedded Vision and Dinesh Kithany, senior analyst, Home Appliances at IHS Inc., providing information on the embedded vision market in consumer devices. & ndash; Dyson recently announced its first robotic vacuum cleaner, the Dyson 360 Eye, which uses a 360 degree camera and embedded vision software to help the product navigate around the home.
Apple NFC Could Be Lightning Rod for Change in Access Control Industry
This is a Research Note from Blake Kozak, senior analyst for Security and Building Technologies at research firm IHS Inc. – For more than four years now, one of the most talked about trends has been field communication (NFC). NFC was supposed to change the face of the access control industry by eliminating the need for cards, subsequently reducing the administrative burden on organizations of all sizes all while increasing security. However this has not yet come to pass, with suppliers offering little more than pilot projects, with limited real-world installations.
Teen Wins $50,000 Grant to Build Biometric Gun Safety Sensor
A 17-year-old inventor in Boulder, CO, will receive a $50,000 grant to help develop a biometric sensor designed to prevent unauthorized people from firing guns. “I’ve been interested in technology for as long as I can remember,” Kai Kloepfer said. “After the mass shooting in the movie theater in Aurora in 2012, I started thinking about the role technology could play in preventing accidents and death related to firearms. The idea actually came to me in a dream and I have been working since then to make it a reality.”
What Exactly Does ‘Safe Cities’ Mean?
Also known as smart cities and closely linked to the ‘internet of things’, the safe cities concept is broad and nebulous – IFSEC asked a range of security experts what it means to them. The CCTV expert: Simon Adcock, CCTV section chairman, BSIA; MD, Atec Security – – Cities are dynamic, complex environments and securing their prosperity through protecting population, assets and reputation is a major challenge.
Retrieving Sound From Vibrations Captured on Video
Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass. In other experiments, they extracted useful audio signals from videos of aluminum foil, the surface of a glass of water, and even the leaves of a potted plant.