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Photos: A Bill Gates retrospective

Through the years, Microsoft's leader has hobnobbed with everyone from the Queen to Bono--and the Albuquerque police. by CNET News.com

Tags: Police, Photograph, Leadership, Management, CNET News.com, news, bill gates

Image galleries 2008-06-24

Employees steal 332 iPhones

From the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up department: SALEM — Two men employed to sell iPhones at the Apple Computer Store in the Mall at Rockingham Park went into business for themselves, stealing 332 of them before being caught by their bosses, police said. Police yesterday arrested Joshua Garrand,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Police, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-03-27

KANINE 2006 (Police K9 records Software) (zip)

KANINE 2006 is a complete, yet affordable, police K9 Record Keeping solution that allows the handler to track K9 Usage, Training, Medical, certification and Daily Log Activities. KANINE 2006 is the most cost efficeient K9 records software system on the market.KANINE 2006 tracks all necessary K9 information and allows the...

Tags: Software, Police, KANINE 2006, Tools & Techniques, Quality, Management, Business Operations

Software downloads 2007-11-15

KATS Generation 4 Police K9 Software (exe)

KATS (K9 Activity Tracking System) Generation 4 is software for police K9 operations. KATS is developed using .NET technology, designed and trusted by law enforcement agencies worldwide. This is a full working 30 day version for a single dog team. The system is also deployable as a client/server system.

Tags: Client-server, Police, KATS, Servers, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-03-20

Piggy Police (exe)

In Piggy Police, chief police commissioner Pork Chop has decided to recruit new cops to aid in the ever-growing PigWolf war. You only need to pass a test to join the proud and the few, the Pig Police.

Tags: Police

Software downloads 2006-07-28

Mobitex Gives Officers Secure Instant Access to Information in Real-Time and at the Touch of a Button

Some years ago Transcomm was awarded a framework agreement by the Home Office to provide mobile data services to the police and fire services until 2004. Throughout the U.K., police and fire services are today adopting wireless solutions on a broad scale. Transcomm and its partners have increased the number...

Tags: Data Service, Police, Microsoft Access, Ericsson Inc., Mobitex, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Case studies

Regional Police Force Alerts Peers Nationwide of Wartime Threats

One of the largest police forces in England and Wales, the Avon and Somerset Constabulary has roots in the 18th century. In modern times, it has pioneered practices that have been adopted across the U.K. It was the first to photograph prisoners and to recruit female cadets. Now, in the...

Tags: Police, Photograph, Internet

Case studies

Additional Resources

Speculation over possible Skype backdoor

There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Childs rigged crazyquilt private network

The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...

Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-24

News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

'Spam King' escapes from federal prison

[ UPDATE:  Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...

Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...

Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

SF mayor gets back to the keys to the city

"The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." So spoke Terry Childs, San Francisco's jailed network administrator, to Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a spur-of-the-minute jailhouse meeting, according to SF Chronicle...

Tags: City, Lawyer, Computer, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Another student hacks another police website

Oh the fun. Once again, another police website has been hacked by a student, showing that even the police aren't safe from all crimes. This is another link in the long chain of attacks over the years from egotistical teenagers trying to get a kick out of life without sticking...

Tags: Web Site, Attack, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices

Mom, EFF fight back over take-down noticesIf Universal wins, America is doomedUniversal absolutely must not win this. It is the thin end of a [i]very[/i] dangerous wedge - will we be allowed to sing along to our ipods in the street, or in family videos? What about humming the tunes...

Tags: EFF fight back, RIAA, member company, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2008-07-20

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...

Tags: SECURITY, cyber-security measure, comprehensive cyber-security measure, Obama, cybersecurity

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bail

This is crazy. Perhaps literally. Terry Childs, computer network administrator for the city of San Francisco, got mad, apparently because his supervisors were trying to fire him, and created a secret root password for himself, locking out the rest of the city. Reported the SF Chronicle: ...

Tags: City, Network Administration, Network, Terry Childs, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostage

Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostageMY HEROIt's about time that somebody had the JEWELS to do this, but it is not worth the jail time.I know an Island where they take people like him and make them cry or put him in with other folk to do some...

Tags: NETWORKING, Construction, Abbie, network guy, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

The Techie Hall of Shame

A SFGate story began this week with the all-too-familiar line--"A disgruntled computer engineer..." before going on to list the disgrace of the day, in this case virtually commandeering San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network and hacking it to deny access to top administrators. He's now locked up with a $5...

Tags: Network, Computer, Productivity, Networking, Security, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter

Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...

Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-16