Health:A Window Into Your Vein [See How You Can Watch Your Blood Flow &Prevent Heart Attack]

Now there’s a better way to spy on the blood in your veins. Doctors already have two techniques to monitor obstructions in blood vessels, but they both have limitations.  The first, Doppler ultrasound imaging, involves irradiating tissue with ultrasound waves; the waves that reflect off flowing blood acquire a Doppler shift, which can be used to pick out blood and calculate its...

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CBN Mandates Commercial Banks To Get Security(Safety) Certification

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has mandated all commercial banks to be information security-certified by 2015. The CBN Deputy Governor (Operations), Mr. Tunde Lemo, dropped the hint in Abuja on Wednesday, during the conferment of the ISO 27001 certificate on the central bank by the British Standards Institution (BSI). This emerged on a day the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Andrew Pocock, also described the CBN’s attainment of one of the highest standards of information security management...

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