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The city of Kokomo is beefing up security along its trail system.

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Cloud video surveillance provider demos Eagle Eye LPR (license plate recognition), previews its revolutionary Smart Video Search, and leads an educational...

As we entered 2020, digital transformation was already gathering steam. Once Covid-19 spread, workers went remote and e-commerce and business-to-business transactions went predominantly online. This propelled digital transformation into a raging inferno that led to unprecedented pressure on developer pipelines from incessant business demands for new code functionality and faster updates. Around the same time

>> nbcs tom costello joining us now. tom, is this profiling? how does it work, and how long has it been going on? >> tsa stresses this is not racial or ethnic profiling. simply looking at individuals who have had this travel history that may in and of itself raise a red flag but then coupled with other data points, other pieces of information warrant at least a closer look. the program itself has been around since 2010, but the federal air marshals have really kind of reoriented part of their da...

Confirmed that the documents posted by wikileaks include authentic material about cia hacking methods for phones, computers and tvs and wikileaks claims it has a larger collection of unreleased data. in a statement to nbc news, they said, quote, we have no comment of the authenticity of the document leaked. tom costello has more on how vulnerable americans electronic devices are. >> reporter: security pros say, the cias alleged hacking blueprints should serve as a reality check for all-americans...

Workers in this country, the people who are running the baggage belts or who are loading with the catering onto planes, et cetera, the people working in the restaurants, they are not required to go through a security checkpoint every day and not necessarily required to have their bags checked every day. and that is a concern that many security pros have expressed to us about if you have an insider who is radicalized by an isis-type organization, the fact that they are not checking everybody rema...

Occasionally, theres not a successful terrorist attack against a u.s. domestic flight since 9/11. a record the tsa is proud of and makes consul tantds nervous, kate. >> a lot of that makes all of us nervous. who what do they talk about when you talk to authorities to try to change some of the negatives? >> yeah. so one of the -- one thing the security pros like to see happen is more random tsa and police checks and screenings throughout the airport. in other words, behind the scenes. for the pol...

A half billion, and the average person spends 27 hours on facebook each month. the problem, keeping it in a world where hackers have targeted some very high profile brand names. for the people who work at facebook, october is a sort of test to security team sets up simulated attacks, then gauges how employees react and learn from the hack. >> this is the hack. >> they call it hackt o rks ber, a focus on traps by fake news stories, e-mails, or web links and stopping an attack before it starts. bu...