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The Vallejo Police Department has announced it will conduct a driving under the influence (DUI) Checkpoint on Dec. 16 from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. at an undisclosed location.
The news release by the VPD states that “DUI checkpoint locations are determined based on data showing incidents of impaired driving-related crashes. The primary purpose of DUI checkpoints are to promote public safety by taking suspected impaired drivers off the road.”
“Impaired drivers put others on the road at significant risk,” Sgt. Rashad Hollis said in the same news release. “Any prevention measures that reduce the number of impaired drivers on our roads significantly improves traffic safety.”
In the statement, the VPD reminds the public that impaired driving is not just from alcohol. Some prescription medications and over-the-counter drugs may interfere with driving. While medicinal and recreational marijuana are legal, driving under the influence of marijuana is illegal.
Drivers charged with a first-time DUI face an average of $13,500 in fines and penalties, as well as a suspended license.
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m. tonight, Yuba City Police Department will hold a DUI checkpoint at a “central location” within Yuba City.
Officials said that checkpoints are determined by data showing where incidents of impaired driving are likely to occur. Checkpoints are established to promote public safety by monitoring impaired drivers and taking them off the road.
“Impaired drivers put others on the road at significant risk,” Sgt. Dennis Hauck said in a statement. “Any prevention measures that reduce the number of impaired drivers on our roads significantly improves traffic safety.”
Officials are urging the public to be aware that impaired driving is not exclusively related to alcohol. Other substances including some prescription medications and over-the-counter drugs can interfere with driving. While medicinal and recreational marijuana may be legal in California, driving under the influence of marijuana is illegal.
Drivers charged with a first-time DUI face an average of $13,500 in fines and penalties,
as well as a suspended license, officials said.
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Police have set up a checkpoint in front of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan residence in the city tonight.
Syrul Kabir Khan, a staff of the chairperson's media wing, confirmed this to The Daily Star.
Abdul Ahad, deputy commissioner (Gulshan division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said as part of a drive, the number of police checkpoint was increased in Gulshan area.
"Police started setting up checkpoints in different areas of Gulshan tonight. It's part of a special drive to arrest drug peddlers, militants and criminal," the police official told this newspaper.
The Police Headquarters earlier directed the field-level officials to carry out a 15-day special drive across the country from December 1 to ward off any untoward incident ahead of the Victory Day.
Chiefs of all police units and superintendents of police in all districts have been asked to conduct the drive between December 1 and 15, according to an order sent by the operations wing of the PHQ on November 29.
A suspected Palestinian car thief crashed a stolen vehicle through a checkpoint at the entrance of Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday morning, before he was shot by guards opening fire in response, police said in a statement.
It was the third such incident within a number of weeks.
The suspect was lightly wounded in the shooting, and police said he would be questioned after receiving medical treatment.
Police said the suspect, who had illegally entered Israel from the West Bank, stole a car from the central region of the country and drove toward the airport.
Guards at the airport noticed the car as it approached at high speed before ramming through the checkpoint and driving on the wrong side of the road.
Airport security responded by opening fire and deploying roadblocks.
Police said that the driver had endangered the safety of the guards and the general public.
Footage circulated on social media apparently showed passengers at the airport’s international terminal who were asked to lie on the ground during the course of the incident.
Ziv Hayat, who was in the terminal, told Channel 12 news that there was initial panic when the incident began.
“We didn’t know exactly what had happened so everyone ran in panic and was shouting. There was a moment of hysteria and stress and everyone lay down. I was with a group of American tourists who didn’t understand what was happening, so I had to explain it to them,” he said. “The incident ended after 20 minutes, and we were told that we could get up and continue as normal.”
There was a similar incident on October 23, when the airport was briefly put on lockdown while the suspect was on the loose.
In an almost identical incident on September 22, a Palestinian driver rammed a stolen vehicle through a security barrier at Ben Gurion Airport, causing no injuries.
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Ratings ranged from 'AAA' to 'CC' with security effectiveness scores from 27% to 100%.
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberRatings.org, the non-profit entity dedicated to providing transparency on cybersecurity product efficacy, has completed an independent test of eight market leading security vendors in its first-ever Cloud Network Firewall comparative evaluation. Forcepoint, Fortinet and Juniper's test reports were published earlier in the year, all with 'AAA' ratings. In this latest release of test reports, Check Point and Versa Networks received a 'AAA' rating. Palo Alto Networks received an 'AA,' Sophos an 'A,' and Cisco 'CC.'
The test covered capabilities considered essential in a firewall including basic routing, access control, SSL / TLS decryption, threat prevention (exploits), evasion, performance, stability and reliability, and management. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the public cloud service chosen to run the test. Ratings were calculated using a scale from 0 to 800.
Key Findings include:- Cloud services assume a shared security model, where cloud providers are responsible for the infrastructure and customers are responsible for securing the applications running on the infrastructure.
- Roughly 80% of web traffic is encrypted and firewall decryption is not on by default: Firewalls will not see/block attacks delivered via (encrypted) HTTPS unless configured to do so.
- Security vendors are used to controlling the platform on which their products are installed. In the cloud, they do not have that control; vendors are learning how to operate under these new conditions and there will be challenges.
- Supply Chain attacks are on the rise. Using the cloud means relying on third parties to maintain software supply chain integrity. APIs, code reuse, open-source libraries, not maintained code, and other shared resources introduce unknown risks.
Security effectiveness scores ranged from 27% to 100%. The security effectiveness tests Tested how effectively the firewall protected control network access, applications, and users while preventing threats (exploits and evasions), blocking malicious traffic while under extended load, and remaining resistant to false positives. Exploit block rates ranged from 88.3% to 100%. All products achieved 100% for resistance to evasion techniques.
"Security is your problem, not Amazon's," said Vikram Phatak, CEO of CyberRatings.org. "If you are migrating your data center to the cloud, create a plan for securing it." Phatak added. "And if you needed a firewall for your data center, you probably need one for your cloud deployment."
There are different ways consumers can purchase security products for the cloud. The individual test reports reflect the bring-your-own-license model while the comparative report illustrates the pay-as-you-go pricing. Both pricing models provide consumers with options to compare pricing on items important to their own organizations.
The following products were evaluated:| Check Point Cloud Network Firewall CloudGuard IaaS R81.20-581 | AAA |
| Cisco Firepower Threat Defense for AWS Version 7.2.0 | CC |
| Forcepoint Cloud Network Firewall v6.11 | AAA |
| Fortinet Cloud Network Firewall v7.0.5 Build 0304(GA) | AAA |
| Juniper Cloud Network Firewall 22.1R1.1 | AAA |
| Palo Alto Networks Cloud Network Firewall PA-VM-AWS-10.2.2 | AA |
| Sophos Cloud Network Firewall SFOS 19.0.0 GA-Build317 | A |
| Versa Networks Cloud Network Firewall Versa-FlexVNF-21.2.3 | AAA |
To read the CyberRatings reports go to CyberRatings.org.
Cloud Network Firewall test tools were provided by Keysight (CyPerf and Breaking Point), and TeraPackets Threat Replayer.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – One person is in custody after attempting to bring a gun into East St. Louis High School on Tuesday morning.
In a message to parents via Facebook, district officials noted that the gun was seized at a student checkpoint Tuesday morning. That said, officials shared that there were not any reported threats made to the school or anyone at it prior to the incident.
“Please know that student and staff safety is our number one priority. School District 189 security staff and administrators work with local law enforcement to ensure that our campuses are safe during the school day,” said East St. Louis Superintendent Arthur R. Culver.
Police did not disclose any details on the person arrested, and criminal charges have not yet been announced.
