Are Airports As Safe As We Hope?
When you are traveling abroad, you must think of the long lines to the terminal checkpoints and frown. Most of us, however, immediately remember...
Britain’s Border Control Systems Frequently Crashes
The Telegraph reports that the computer system used to protect “Britian’s borders by screening passengers for terrorists and criminals has crashed multiple times,” according...
Are the Night Vision Goggles Used in the Bin Laden Raid...
The $65,000 goggles allow SEALs to clear corners better than the traditional night vision eyepieces, which are like “looking through toilet paper tubes.”
L-3’s Ground Panoramic...
Video Analytics Community Meets at iHLS Conference Today
iHLS Conference on Video Analytics today at Rishon LeZion was a great success. Hundreds of professionals and experts in this field participated in the...
New Security Scanners for Canada’s Border Service
Smiths Detection has won a follow-on order for over $8 million to supply mobile X-ray cargo screening systems to the Canada Border Services Agency...
TSA Lets Weapons Slip Through Screening 95% Of Cases
Since its creation almost 14 years ago, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has had one goal...
Is the Biometric Storage Safe? Hackers succeeded in replicating a fingerprint
Over the years, fingerprints have become one of the best decisive means of identification. Nevertheless, it would seem that technology has made a leap...
Biometrics – The Solution for IoT Security
Biometrics and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies represent a symbiotic match that together will drive further IoT adoption, according to techzone360.com evaluation.
The IoT market...
New Training System Designed To Help Airport Screening Officers
A new training system has been designed to train more efficiently airport screening officers. The Office for Public Safety Research within the Department of...
iHLS TV Interview: Israel’s Friendliest Security System
Many Israelis are familiar with the following scenario: Reach the train station early in the morning, tired, carrying a heavy bag; all you want...
New Solution for UAV Tracking
NASA has designed an innovative antenna-mounting platform that meets the needs of the unmanned aircraft market by providing a low-cost, low-power mobile auto-tracking antenna....
To Thwart Radicalisation, France Is Tightening Security
Nearly 60 people suspected of Islamist radicalism have had their security clearances to work at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport revoked. The 86,000 individuals...
Academia-Industry Deep Learning Partnership for Airport Security
A deep learning digital solution project to advance airport checkpoint x-ray system screening capabilities has been announced. Smiths Detection Inc. (SDI) will partner with...
Nuclear Detection at a Competetive Price
A DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program aimed at preventing nuclear threats was successfully demonstrated as part of DARPA’s SIGMA program. SIGMA was...
New Technology for Offshore Mine Detection
During a recent technology demonstration, a new way to detect buried and submerged mines was unveiled. Dr. Rosemarie Oelrich, a scientist at Naval Surface...
New Video Analytics Technology for Challenging Conditions
A new video analytic technology launched recently is suitable for real-world scenarios where monitoring conditions are challenging.
Face Recognition video analytic is ideally suited...
ODNI crowsources speech-recognition software
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) wants to crowdsource ideas for software that would make human speech recorded in noisy environments more easily...
Maximal Security, Without The Weakness of Long Lines
A new security solution for public safety in crowded spaces and airports presents a rapid screening rate. Digital Barriers, a company specializing in provision...
iHLS TV – Special Video Report: Active Protecton
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iHLS Israel Homeland Security
Israeli active protection for tanks and armored vehicles is currently the only operational technology...
Cross-Border Biological Threat Screening – a Priority
The US has been promoting cross-border threat screening for biological agents. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced $35...
The Ebola epidemic: Carriers difficult to detect
On Thursday, the Nigerian government announced that they had started screening passengers at international airports for signs of Ebola after a passenger showed up...
Sharm el-Sheikh Airport Security Lax, Or Simply Ignored?
On Oct. 31, Metrojet Flight 9268 catastrophically broke apart over the Sinai Peninsula after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh about 20 minutes earlier and...
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