Radiance Technologies, a small Huntsville, AL company, has created a system that can instantly determine the exact location of a gun being fired and its model. The U.S. Army is currently testing it and three similar ones to give soldiers an edge in battle conditions, by allowing them to return fire more rapidly.

Unlike other known systems, the Radiance’s WeaponWatch is powered by infrared sensors that can literally detect missiles or gunfire at the speed of light. It even works while under heavy attack and at longer sniper distances.

WeaponWatch is one of the major reasons Radiance has grown from only three employees six years ago to 275, making it one of the 500 fastest-growing small businesses in the United States.

A new lie detector, the GK-1, tested in Russia for airline security shows significant promise towards improving airline security. The GK-1, developed by Israeli firm Nemesysco, uses a minimally invasive two stage process to tell if a passenger is being untruthful.

The initial test takes between 30 to 75 seconds and can be performed as part of the standard security screening. Passengers simply put on a pair of headphones and look at a console to answer “yes” or “no” questions into a microphone. For those that fail the initial test, they are taken aside for a more extensive test.

At $10k to $30 per installation, the added speed and accuracy of the tests may be a good step towards improving airline safety and helping you get through the “line” that much faster.

U.S. District Judge John Schabaz threw out a lawsuit brought by Associated Bank-Corp against Earthlink for identifying the bank’s site as a “potentially fraudulent” and advising users to “not continue to use this potentially risky site”.
We raised the possibility of sites and businesses being negatively affected by errors in the new anti-phishing toolbar from Microsoft. […]

A new report from Symantec, who is not affiliated with any major browser, states that Mozilla based browsers, such as Firefox, may be more vulnerable than IE. Many within the tech industry have said this for years, but this is the first time it has been heard from a large name that is not […]

Gray Research, based in Huntsville, Alabama, has signed a contract worth approximately $72 million for work with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command at Redstone Arsenal.

Under this contract, Gray Research will support the operation and management of the Missile Defense Data Center (MDDC) in Huntsville for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop and field an integrated Ballistic Missile Defense System.

A new report by Reconnex suggests that the majority of companies expose vast amounts of employee personal information

Some of the high-level results include:

• 91% of companies assessed exposed employee and/or customer personal data
• 80% of companies assessed had unknown peer-to-peer file sharing protocols running, such as Kazaa, Bit Torrent, WinMX