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Posted on May 11, 2012 by admin | No Comments
West Midlands police is to introduce fingerprint scanning devices, which allow officers to find out if a person is wanted by police or the courts. The force said it plans to roll out 70 hand-held MobileID devices following a successful pilot of the technology. The devices are satellite-linked to a national fingerprint database and instantly... Read More →
Posted on May 10, 2012 by admin | No Comments
If these walls could talk... Actually, they can. Sort of. Thanks to the writing on the walls. The building -- that was from 1945 to 1989, the central KGB prison of counterintelligence/espionage in Eastern Germany -- has been kept in its original state to help historical researchers learn more about the people affected by it. Next... Read More →
Posted on May 10, 2012 by admin | No Comments
With smartphones becoming increasingly ubiquitous in society, as much a device for work as it is for personal use, people need to be conscious of the fact their phones are liable to threats. Get Safe Online, a joint initiative between the government, law enforcement, businesses and the public sector, has advised people to be vigilant... Read More →
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For more than two months, police and bail bondsmen have searched for 23-year-old Cameron Paul Crockett, who didn't show up for sentencing after a jury convicted him of manslaughter in the drunken- driving death of a friend. Now, federal authorities say they've joined the hunt. The U.S. Marshals Service, which works to find fugitives... Read More →
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San Diego County authorities confirm that a body pulled from a hole in the Southern California desert is that of a hiker who vanished last month. The medical examiner's office says the identity of 24-year-old Guillermo Pino Jr. was confirmed Wednesday but there's no immediate word on the cause of his death. The San Diego man went... Read More →
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A student of a reputed college in the city told her parents that she was going to Goa during the summer vacation with 12 girlfriends. Not convinced about the ‘girlfriends’ accompanying her, the girl’s parents hired a private detective to spy on her. Sleuths from the detective agency found that the girl was sharing a room with... Read More →
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Private detectives may be called in to try to catch any internet cheats before this year's baccalauréat exams. The Ministry of Education is already on guard after last year's fraud when one of the questions in the maths exam was leaked on to a games website. The exam was being sat by 160,000 students across France and was eventually... Read More →
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The warning signs of possible theft or other criminal activity aren’t always easy to spot. Sometimes there’s no forewarning. But, internal theft is different. The warning signs are almost always right in front of us – if we’re paying attention. And given that research suggests 1 in 3 employees steal if given the opportunity,... Read More →
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Citing First Amendment issues, a federal appeals court is barring Illinois from enforcing a law prohibiting the audio-recording of police officers. The decision Tuesday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes two weeks ahead of a NATO summit in Chicago that is likely to draw throngs of protesters May 20-21. The American Civil... Read More →
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Internet users were scammed out of more than $485 million in 2011, according to the latest data released by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on Thursday. “In 2011, IC3 received and processed, on average, more than 26,000 complaints per month. The most common complaints received in 2011 included FBI-related scams—schemes... Read More →
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More than 40 people were arrested on Wednesday in Canada in a sting operation against what authorities say was a well-organized international bank card ring that stole at least $7 million and possibly hundreds of millions more. Police conducted about 60 early-morning raids throughout Montreal and Ontario on what are believed to be three... Read More →
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The IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative allows you to voluntarily come forward about offshore accounts, on which you may owe taxes to the IRS, without fear of criminal retribution. The reasoning behind the program, according to the IRS’s website, “Taxpayers with undisclosed foreign accounts or entities should make a voluntary... Read More →
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