Security has been tightened along the Canadian border in the northeast corner of the United States, Reuters reports.Travelers from Canada are now required to show identification and submit to background checks at border posts in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, according to Ted Woo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman in Boston.“It’s such a shock to all of us here,” Florence Joyal, 68, who works the cash register in a general store in the Vermont village of Derby Line, told Reuters. “Before, you didn’t even show your ID to cross the border.”The 5,500-mile border with Canada is under close scrutiny after President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed in March to work together on border security, the article states. The tougher security slowed border traffic to a crawl on May 22, Canada’s Victorial Day, and is frustrating travelers and businesses alike. Some irate business owners telephoned state senators or the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to complain after the delays hurt sales, Dennis Michaud, executive director of the Greater Madawaska Chamber of Commerce in Maine, told Reuters.“In the past, if an individual came across the border, their IDs would be checked. But there wouldn’t be a cross-referencing of 100 percent of those people into our databases,” said Woo, whose Boston office oversees about 40 border checkpoints in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. Keep checking in at our Security Feed page, or subscribe via RSS, for updated news coverage.Compiled by Paul Kerstein Related content news Google Chrome zero-day jumps onto CISA's known vulnerability list A serious security flaw in Google Chrome, which was discovered under active exploitation in the wild, is a new addition to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency’s Known Exploited vulnerabilities catalog. By Jon Gold Oct 03, 2023 3 mins Zero-day vulnerability brandpost The advantages and risks of large language models in the cloud Understanding the pros and cons of LLMs in the cloud is a step closer to optimized efficiency—but be mindful of security concerns along the way. By Daniel Prizmant, Senior Principal Researcher at Palo Alto Networks Oct 03, 2023 5 mins Cloud Security news Arm patches bugs in Mali GPUs that affect Android phones and Chromebooks The vulnerability with active exploitations allows local non-privileged users to access freed-up memory for staging new attacks. By Shweta Sharma Oct 03, 2023 3 mins Android Security Vulnerabilities news UK businesses face tightening cybersecurity budgets as incidents spike More than a quarter of UK organisations think their cybersecurity budget is inadequate to protect them from growing threats. By Michael Hill Oct 03, 2023 3 mins CSO and CISO Risk Management Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe