Inmate Tracking Systems Breed Errors
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Christopher T. Broady appeared last week on a wanted poster under the words printed in bold: "PRISONER ESCAPE."
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Catawba County, N.C., authorities have found a possible link between a dog breeder found shot to death in his home in April and the "Bad Newz Kennels" operated by Michael Vick.
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An electrical fence surrounding a privately run jail near the Mexican border was tampered with, possibly preventing an alarm from sounding when six inmates escaped this week, an official with the jail operator said Friday.
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Who's on the hook when a navigation system's instructions result in an accident?
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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commentary Microsoft was a little unhappy with an article I wrote this week because it contained a slight factual error. The error arose from two separate companies finding an almost identical security hole
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The software maker has acknowledged it was wrong when it told users certain file formats were insecure.
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By MAGGIE BARRY  SEX attackers who go missing face being named and shamed in a tough police crackdown.   Proposed measures to keep track of them also include satellite tracking and lie detector tests.
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Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
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High-risk U.S. inmates have used the prison mail system to promote terrorism and other criminal activity because all their mail has not been read or properly translated, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.
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This article discusses the discovery of compromised machines in large enterprise environments, and offers some suggestions on correlating NIDS and HIPS logs to avoid false positives.
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Researcher finds two flaws that under unusual circumstances could let a malicious program read private data or render a phone unusable.
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In his travels as a PHP developer, Jamie Wong has gathered some helpful debugging tips that are shared in this latest post to his blog.   Here are some bugfixing rules and tips Iâve learned working all these years with PHP. I emphasize mostly on fixing bugs than preventing them, which is another subject worth of its own article. Iâve moved to Rails, but I wanted to finish this post as a farewell and thanks to every article and documentation that was useful to me. Hope this is useful to you too.   Topics covered include:  Assume nothing Turn Error Reporting to show all errors Read the error message Understand the bug "Scooby-Bug, where are you?" Get as much information as possible  Each has some explanation below it and, in some places, a bit of code to clarify the point.
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Plus: Spammers go to jail, and laptops get LED backlights.
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This paper will cover the challenge of identifying a reliable source of information to populate and maintain accurate configuration information from the distributed application and server environment for use in the CMDB.
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For Nevada corrections officials, finding the software they needed to link the state's 24 remote prisons wasn't nearly as tough as figuring out how to connect them all.
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A review of electronic tagging argues the system may be undermining public confidence in the criminal justice system.