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Posted on January 22, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Her hands trembled as she picked up her passport. The woman of the house, who often called her "donkey," had warned her bad things would happen if she tried to escape. But she had reached a breaking point. After months of being held captive as a housekeeper in the Mideast and then metro Detroit, Nade -- her name has been changed... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
An ex-con accused of spraying a store security guard in the face with Mace when the guard tried to stop the suspect's girlfriend from shoplifting was behind bars today. Sammy Young Weakley, 48, was nooked on suspicion of assault with a chemical and being a convicted felon in possession of a weapon for the alleged attack outside a store... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
The Better Business Bureau is warning about an identity theft scam targeting Medicare recipients. The agency said the latest fraud attempt involves calling Medicare consumers. The caller states that they want to send the consumer a “new Medicare card”. They then go over the consumer’s personal information and eventually ask for... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
After being confined to Spring Arbor Nursing Home for more than a year, Patricia Gipe was eager to regain her independence, her family said. Gipe hired Tonya Antionette Lloyd, a housekeeper from the nursing home, to help around her house and run a few errands. Everything seemed fine until a phone call from her bank in November about... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
The United States Government’s cabinet-level national security agency, Department of Homeland Security has ensured the keeping of tabs on who is saying what and why. The Department’s National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative is going out of its way to spend time, money and resources on watching over those that... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
DreamHost customers should change their passwords asap. That's the word from the Web-hosting service and domain name registrar, which sent an e-mail to customers last night saying that their FTP passwords may have been accessed by hackers. The company said it had reset all customer FTP passwords as a precaution and that users would... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
The next time you use your iPhone or Samsung Galaxy tablet, think about this: The person sitting next to you could be stealing the information you type into your email, Facebook or bank account. Most of us realize digital thieves can infiltrate our computers. But their latest targets are popular smartphones and tablets that they can... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
You're married and you discover that your spouse is unfaithful. You're devastated and consider getting a divorce. But, divorce doesn't seem to be enough -- shouldn't someone pay for the anguish and shame the affair has caused you? Yes, according to Louisiana State University law professor and tort expert William R. Corbett, whose 2001... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
The buzz around the eDiscovery of social media continues unabated in 2012, and for good reason. I challenged the team here at X1 Discovery to identify a numerical “2012 top trends in eDiscovery” list such as this one that did not include social media. Overall we identified 12 such projection lists from established vendors. This post... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
One slept with several cabinet ministers. Another sold info to the Soviets to fund his expensive tastes. Take a look back at Canada's other spies. The Gouzenko Affair Igor Gouzenko received intelligence training at the beginning of the Second World War, becoming a cipher clerk at the Soviet legation in Ottawa in 1943. Two years later,... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
A report has found workplace fraud is costing Canada's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) at least $3.2 billion a year - probably much more - and is hurting employee morale, just as the authors of the report say the problem is growing. About 290,000 SMEs were victims of one or more instances of work-place fraud in the past year, says... Read More →
Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
A 20-year-old man is facing 24 counts of voyeurism after police found hidden cameras in his bathroom and a bedroom. Paul Zajac, 20, was charged with 24 counts of voyeuristic recording of another person. Zajac first appeared in court in April 2011 after a woman found a hidden camera in the bathroom of the home they both lived in.... Read More →
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