News – Crime & Courts Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 Shandon shooter was wearing homemade explosives By NOELLE PHILLIPS – nophillips@thestate.com E-Mail Print Reprint 146 Comments Text Size: tool name close tool goes here Police found homemade explosives on the body of a 22-year-old Columbia man who died Wednesday in a [...]
BP Agents Told to Stop Making Illegal Immigrant Arrests A United States border patrol agent catches an illegal immigrant crossing from Mexico to the U.S. in San Ysidro, California, April 13, 2011. [AP] Associated Press April 27, 2011 Both sheriffs are elected officials. Dever is a Republican, Estrada, a [...]
US Army opts for Android over iPhone by Michael Grothaus (RSS feed) on Apr 24th 2011 at 12:30PM Wired is reporting that the US Army has chosen to use an Android-based phone as its first smartphone for US troops. Now in prototype stage, the US Army Android smartphone is called [...]
Apple Q&A on Location Data CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple would like to respond to the questions we have recently received about the gathering and use of location information by our devices. 1. Why is Apple tracking the location of my iPhone? Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple [...]
Google’s Android mobile-phone platform faces soaring software attacks and has little control over the applications, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab. Applications loaded with malicious software are infiltrating the Google operating system at a faster rate than hackers did with personal computers at the same stage in development, said Nikolay [...]
Japan disasterJapan launches massive search effort today Published 25 April 2011 24,800 soldiers, accompanied by ninety helicopters, fifty boats, and 100 divers are being sent into the disaster area to search for and recover the thousands of bodies still lying on the ground or buried under debris; 14,300 are confirmed [...]
2002 Color-code terror alert system, RIP Published 21 April 2011 On 26 April a new terrorist alert system — the National Terrorism Alert System (NTAS) — will go into effect, replacing the color-code alert system which has been in effect since 2002; the new system will include “imminent threat” and [...]
About 300 Taliban fighters overran the tiny capital of a remote mountainous district in northeast Afghanistan on Tuesday, forcing police to retreat from their small outpost in the area…The takeover was another indication of the deteriorating security situation in the north and east of the country, and a sign [...]
Are retailers prepared for an active shooter? NRF updates guidelines to encourage retailers to ‘develop a plan that’s right for their business environment’ By Leischen Stelter – 04.05.2011 WASHINGTON—The near-fatal shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, which claimed the lives of six people in the parking [...]
Border securitySmugglers use portable ramp to jump border fence Published 19 April 2011 Drug smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border are relying on increasingly more innovative ways to bypass additional security measures deployed along the southern border; law enforcement officials recently discovered a mobile folding ramp that allowed vehicles to drive [...]
Israel takes out another Iranian nuclear scientist Published 11 January, 2012 – 08:31 Yet another Iranian scientist associated with Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been killed earlier today: Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who was the deputy director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, was killed when a “sticky” bomb was attached [...]“Deputy Down” Are the words we all fear to hear. Saddened is my heart to hear an officer fell. While defending the community he loved so well. Time he invested on the force never blinking an eye. For risking his own life protecting us, we regard him most high. How [...]http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/27/confessions-of-a-private-security-contractor/ Confessions of a private security contractor by Suzanne Kelly “There are a lot of assumptions about contractors, and a lot of the assumptions are wrong.” Those are the words of a private security contractor who asked to be referred to only as “Lloyd” for this story, because like most [...]MCSO Deputy Shot During DUI Traffic Stop Published : Saturday, 17 Dec 2011, 9:30 PM MST PHOENIX – A Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in the foot near Interstate 17 and Dunlap Saturday night. Authorities say a DUI task force traffic stop led to the shooting. The suspect was [...]Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi is dead, Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril has confirmed. “We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Qaddafi has been killed,” Jibril told a news conference in the capital Tripoli. Qaddafi died of wounds suffered during his capture near his hometown of Sirte [...]THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY September 8, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama in an Address to a Joint Session of Congress Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and fellow Americans: Tonight we meet at an urgent time [...]Anonymous Vows to Take Down Facebook TG Daily (08/10/11) Woollacott, Emma According to a YouTube video message, the hacker collective Anonymous is planning to destroy Facebook on Nov. 5. The group alleges that Facebook has been giving personal information to governments, including Egypt and Syria. “Facebook has been selling information [...]. /$$ /$$ /$$$$$$ .| $$ | $$ /$$__ $$ .| $$ /$$ /$$| $$ /$$$$$$$$| $$ \__/ /$$$$$$ /$$$$$$$ .| $$ | $$ | $$| $$|____ /$$/| $$$$$$ /$$__ $$ /$$_____/ .| $$ | $$ | $$| $$ /$$$$/ \____ $$| $$$$$$$$| $$ .| $$ | $$ | $$| [...]By Andrew Morse and Ian Sherr Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES A group of hackers that has claimed attacks on websites run by the U.S. Senate and the Central Intelligence Agency posted a cache of documents from Arizona police, calling it a protest against a controversial state law. On Thursday, Lulz [...]Two Republican House members are calling for an investigation of the Transportation Security Administration after serious lapses in security led to the firing of dozens TSA employees at Honolulu International Airport. Rep. John Mica of Florida and Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, both harsh critics of TSA, wrote to the [...]
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