Every AI agent needs a kill switch: DigiCert launches AI Trust Manager

DigiCert, a global leader in intelligent trust, has announced the general availability of DigiCert AI Trust Manager, part of the DigiCert ONE platform.
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ZBeta launches Drone and Robotics Consulting Program to help organisations navigate the next dimension of physical security

ZBeta, a pioneer in delivering comprehensive physical security consulting services, today unveiled a new Drones and Robotics Consulting Practice designed to help organisations understand, evaluate and prepare for the rapidly expanding role of autonomous and unmanned technologies in physical security.
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Codelocks launches ConnectShare locks for easy access and app-enabled management

Codelocks International Ltd, the global access control specialist, has launched ConnectShare, a new range of smart locks that use mobile phones to make access and management easy.
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SWEAR launches program to help cities protect the integrity of critical video evidence

SWEAR, a leader in digital content authenticity, today announced the Community Video Integrity Project, a new initiative designed to help cities and public agencies proactively protect the integrity of critical video and establish a verifiable record of authenticity from the moment it is captured.
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Robust UK extends its Riser-Dor range

Robust UK, a leading manufacturer of steel door solutions, has announced that it has added a fire-rated and smoke-tested double doorset option to its RISER-DOR range. 
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Hospitals facing hidden access-control problem as workforce turnover surges

The NHS has a particularly difficult security challenge because its buildings must remain open and accessible while managing a workforce that is constantly changing.
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Yale launches first-of-its-kind MOTUS production line for multipoint locks

Ned Kenjic, Director and Head of Manufacturing at ASSA ABLOY UKI, introduces MOTUS, the new multipoint lock manufacturing flowline at ASSA ABLOY's production facility in Willenhall:
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Why smart lock installs are quietly breaking locksmith P&Ls

Investigative contributor Bhargavi Halthore writes: A locksmith in Leeds told me last month that his average PVCu smart handle job now runs closer to 90 minutes on site, compared with the 25 to 30 minutes he used to bill for a straightforward Euro cylinder swap. He hadn't changed his call-out price. He'd just quietly absorbed the extra hour, plus a follow-up phone call two days later when the customer couldn't pair the app to a new phone.

That pattern, longer jobs at the same price, with a support tail nobody quoted for, is showing up across the trade. A 2026 UK price guide prices Euro cylinder replacements at 20 to 30 minutes and mortice work closer to 45, while smart lock jobs sit in a materially higher labour bracket. That gap is where margin is disappearing.
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Hickleys Simply Keys 2026 – A weekend of savings, sales, schooling and smiles

What a great weekend we had at Simply Keys! This year we saw a nice increase in interest in the show with a record number of people registering to come along. The staff at the GTG Centre in Wolverhampton were extremely accommodating as our hosts (as always!) and helped to make the show run as smoothly as it possibly could have.

The Hickleys Games arcade was buzzing as ever throughout the two days, this year we brought along two new games for people to try. Our new reaction game saw us give away 4 ever-popular Nintendo Switch consoles.
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HKC launches SecureRewards installer loyalty programme

HKC Security has launched SecureRewards, a new installer loyalty programme designed to reward partners for continued engagement with HKC products and services. 

Developed to recognise and reward installer loyalty, SecureRewards allows installers to earn points through everyday business activities, including purchasing and registering HKC intruder alarm systems, activating SecureComm connections, attending training courses, and submitting case studies.
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Zimperium uncovers RatHat, AI-powered Android malware built to steal credentials and hijack devices

Zimperium, a global leader in AI-empowered mobile security, today announced that its zLabs research team has uncovered RatHat, an advanced Android malware strain linked to threat actors believed to be operating in China. RatHat uses generative AI to adaptively navigate compromised devices, steal financial credentials and maintain persistent control even after a user attempts to uninstall the malicious application. 

Distributed through smishing, malvertising and deceptive third-party download sites, RatHat disguises itself as a legitimate application and uses a multistage infection process to evade analysis. Once installed, it abuses Android Accessibility services to enable wireless debugging and autonomously pair with the device’s Android Debug Bridge (ADB). This allows the malwa
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What smart locks inherit from software

By Evgenii Arsentev, PhD, AI transformation executive, ARSENTEV.AI

A mechanical lock fails in a way the trade has understood for a century. It fails locally, it fails visibly, and it fails one site at a time. Somebody notices a door that will not close, a key that turns badly, a cylinder that has been attacked. The failure is in front of you and it belongs to that one door.

A connected lock does not do any of that. It inherits the failure modes of the software industry, and those are shaped differently: they are remote, they are quiet, and they tend to arrive everywhere at once. That is not an argument against connected hardware. I run automated systems for a living and I would not go back. It is an argument for specifying them with your eyes open, because the questions that protect a mechanical installation are not the questions that protect a connected one.
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ASSA ABLOY Door Group highlights importance of BS 8214:2026 during Fire Door Safety Week

ASSA ABLOY Door Group is supporting Fire Door Safety Week 2026 by raising awareness of the latest update to BS 8214:2026, and the importance of education, specification and ongoing maintenance in supporting fire-door safety.
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Squire partners with inaugural Fix Radio Tool Theft Conference

Squire is pleased to continue its support for the trade at the 2026 Fix Radio Tool Theft Conference in partnership with Wickes TradePro. The event is due to take place at Fazeley Studios, Digbeth on the 22^nd of October 2026, and as a Collaborating Partner, Squire will draw on its 246 years of security expertise to share best practice and discuss practical security measures for tradespeople.   

The conference comes as tool theft continues to affect tradespeople across the UK. In 2024, more than 25,000 tool thefts were reported, with the crime estimated to cost tradespeople approximately £40 million a year. For many, these crimes can result in lost income and significant disruption to their business.
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UK locksmiths go behind the scenes at ABUS Pfaffenhain

ABUS has welcomed a group of UK locksmiths to its Pfaffenhain manufacturing facility in Germany, giving customers the opportunity to see first-hand how its locking systems are manufactured.

The group of new and existing customers spent several days in Germany, with the visit combining a tour of the Pfaffenhain factory with time to meet the ABUS team, learn more about the manufacturing process and explore the wider range of security solutions produced.
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Lords call for UK AI “kill switch” powers

A group of UK peers is calling for the government to have powers to deactivate powerful AI systems and, in extreme circumstances, switch off data centres if they pose a threat to national security.
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