Day: March 17, 2006

California gang members to be tracked by GPS – CNET News.com

California gang members to be tracked by GPS | CNET News.com For more info click on above link California prison officials have begun using Global Positioning System anklets to track known gang members. The gritty suburb of San Bernardino, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, this week became the first California city to use the GPS satellite navigation system to track gang members when the devices were strapped onto three parolees, state Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jeanne Woodford said. Six California counties began using GPS to monitor sex offenders in 2005 and some have already been

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RFID viruses? Don’t panic, say experts -News at silicon.com

RFID viruses? Don’t panic, say experts – Malware – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com Click on above link for more info Dutch researchers have announced they have successfully created a virus capable of infecting RFID tags. In a new study, Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus? scientists from the Computer Systems Group at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam revealed that data from RFID tags can be used to exploit back-end software systems. The academics also went on to create a proof-of-concept virus, which uses the track and trace tags to compromise middleware systems

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