Security and Alarm Systems Blog

►Hotels in New York will began issuing panic buttons to housekeepers in the wake of an incident where a hotel maid says she was sexually assaulted by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The panic buttons were included in a contract proposal presented to New York’s hotel worker’s union. Employers will be required to provide a panic button to any hotel worker entering an occupied guest room, reports the Guardian.

read more

To fight hackers, companies are informing customers of threats, creating public-private partnerships, and devising security standards.

Botnets, or groups of compromised computers that can be remotely commanded by hackers, continue to be a problem. They can be used to send large amounts of spam or to launch denial-of-service attacks. McAfee estimates that there are more than four million new botnet infections per month.

read more

Republican and Democratic lawmakers yesterday battled over a Republican push to expand a public-private screening partnership which allows airports to opt-out of federalized security screening in favor of private security contractors.

read more

►Results of a study to be released today by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security say that the threat of Muslim radicalization is “miniscule” and that the feared wave of homegrown terrorism by Muslim Americans has not materialized.

read more

Around February 2013, the sun will ride its 11-year cycle upward toward solar maximum. During these periods, solar flares increase, and the ions generated by these massive solar explosions can create geomagnetic storms that interfere with the earth’s magnetic field.

read more

read more

►The British Home Affairs Committee on Monday published a report on calling on Internet service providers to help fight violent extremism by being more diligent in removing objectionable sites “with appropriate guidance, advice and support from the Government.” The report, Roots of Violent Radicalisation, calls the Internet the mos

read more

Security researchers are still trying to wrap their heads around what will come of an emerging trend in mobile malware that extracts a mobile user’s location in addition to personal data.

read more

read more