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After suffering a massive amount of embarrassment over the leak of classified and sensitive diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks - allegedly at the hands of an insider - the Army wants to use keylogging software with additional abilities, to prevent another Cablegate scale data breach. Maj. Gen. Steven Smith, chief of the Army Cyber Directorate,... Read More →
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Duane "Dog" Chapman and his family have been receiving threatening emails in the past few weeks. The messages say the television personality and his family will be killed, Chapman's Da-Kine Bail Bonds' office in Honolulu confirmed Thursday. The Chapman family sent the emails to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Los Angeles,... Read More →
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A Russian billionaire was slapped with a Manhattan lawsuit this week — and serving the papers required the kind of cunning and derring-do reserved for a Hollywood screenplay and CIA black ops. Process server Chris Williams has been called on three times to track down fertilizer king Dmitri Rybolovlev in Hawaii and hand him documents. To... Read More →
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Naomi Vanover sits inside her Shelby home each day and listens for a familiar sound. The clicking of a key turning the front-door lock. It’s a comforting sound she hasn’t heard in two months. Her boyfriend, Joseph Durant “Danny” Moses, would unlock the front door when he visited her each day. They had been together for... Read More →
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With the help of a private investigator, a London, Ont., law firm has located and served Bishop James Wingle in connection with a civil suit against him and former priest Donald Grecco. Wingle, the former leader of Niagara’s Catholic community, resigned and disappeared from the area in early 2010, giving very little explanation as... Read More →
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Russ Wimer was excited to show his grandson the 1937 Chevy firetruck he purchased in 1977 and spent a year restoring. But when he showed up at the East Naples Fire Department recently to see the vehicle, it was gone. “It wasn’t there and no one could say what happened to it. I was in shock. How do you lose a fire truck? I gave them... Read More →
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If you’re working in construction, there’s a good chance you’re laboring next to someone with a criminal past. But if you’re working in the nonprofit sector, you’re more likely to be sitting next to someone who has lied about his education. Those differences came to light when Kroll analyzed “hit ratios” for the eight... Read More →
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It doesn’t matter your reasoning or who the individual you are investigating is. You can never be too certain about anyone’s true identity until you perform an in depth back group check to verify their claims. The following are a few typical scenarios in which running a background check is applicable: 1. Job Applicant A background... Read More →
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Forget your broken heart and wounded pride. The true cost of Internet romance scams is $50,399,536.16, the amount of losses reported by Americans in 2011 to the The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a low-key quasi-project of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center. Women constituted more than $39 million of the losses,... Read More →
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Part 4 of our series on How to Be an Effective Expert Witness in Court. Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure was amended in 2010, and as of December 1, 2010, the changes to the rule have significantly altered the type and scope of information that can be obtained from an expert witness in the course of discovery. A number... Read More →
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DNA Profiling. Toxicology. Ballistics. Today's criminal investigators employ powerful scientific tools to catch bad guys. But where did they come from and how do they really work? A new six-episode series from Smithsonian Channel uncovers the secrets behind the science. FORENSIC FIRSTS premieres Sunday, June 17 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. FORENSIC... Read More →
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Don't worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access your data illegally. The U.K. government is hemorrhaging data -- private and confidential citizen data -- from medical records to social security details,... Read More →
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