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“We’re saying, partner with the private sector and we can push technology forward and innovate.”

Several projects explored the use of maps, including one group that built a widget that allows a user to click on a point in a map to have the coordinates automatically inserted into a message that can then be posted to multiple social networks at once via the HelloTXT service.

The first-place prize went to a group primarily from NASA that worked on a mobile notification app that can be used when regular cellular networks are so bogged down people can’t make phone calls. Using the “I’m OK” app, people can easily notify friends and family members that they are safe via SMS by clicking one button.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10398073-245.html

“My project is the first Web application honeypot with a working vulnerability emulator able to respond properly to attacker requests,” says Lukas Rist, who created Glastopf.

Unlike other Web honeypots that use templates posing as real Web apps, Glastopf basically adapts to the attack and can automatically detect and allow an unknown attack. The project uses a central database to gather the Web attack data from the Glastopf honeypot sensors installed by participants who want to share their data with the database.

“The project will contribute real-world data and statistics about attacks against Web apps — an area where we do not have good collection tools yet,” says Thorsten Holz, Rist’s mentor on the project. “They can, for example, find compromised servers in their space that host PHP bots, or other data related to remote file inclusion vulnerabilities,” he says.

http://darkreading.com/database_security/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221300001

In California, we are confronting the challenges in a coordinated and efficient fashion that will increase protections for the citizens and businesses of this state,” said Weatherford, in a statement announcing the plan.

A California First Weatherford’s new statewide information security plan is the first ever developed for California state government, and it represents a significant milestone for the CISO, given the sprawling nature of California state government and the size and independence of its state agencies.

In an interview with Government Technology earlier this year, Weatherford said California state agency CIOs needed an enterprise security strategy to help guide their efforts.

http://www.govtech.com/gt/733337?topic=117671

The New Lenox district is among the first in the south suburbs to adopt this technology, following in the steps of Homewood-Flossmoor High School, which launched the system last year. The system stores the license information so returning volunteers only have to provide their name – which is rerun through the database – to get a new ID badge. “You may not be a sex offender today but may be tomorrow,” said Jason Livezey, District 122’s director of technology.

“It’s important we do this to make sure we ID people who are coming into our schools… But it’s only done when students are in the building, not during after-school events such as basketball games, he said.

If a parent is on the list, board policy states the parent only is allowed to attend parent-teacher conferences and may be supervised.

“No technology will be a magic bullet.” And the technology “is only as good as the adults working in the environment where the equipment is operational,” said school security expert Kenneth S. Trump, president of Cleveland-based National School Safety and Security Services. “The first and best line of defense is a well-trained, highly alert staff and student body,” Trump said via e-mail.

Video cameras and buzzers have become standard procedure, regardless of school size. Tinley Park District 146 is installing a video intercom system requiring all visitors to push a button, which feeds their picture to the school office, where once admitted, they must present a driver’s license. Orland School District 135 installed GPS units on all its buses and will purchase digital radios to improve staff communications. “They are trying to protect kids from falling meteors.”

http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/869690.html