By James Deater
Recently the United States Supreme Court ruled that the use of GPS tracking devices to track the whereabouts of a suspected criminal is considered a search. The results of this ruling now requires police to obtain search warrants and/or court orders in order to use these devices. This has had a major impact on those police agencies and investigative units who rely on GPS technology to track suspected criminals engaged in illegal activities.
By Timothy Hardiman
Like most other organizations, police agencies are exploring the various uses, opportunities and dangers associated with social media. One aspect of social media that is of interest to law enforcement is using it as a tool while conducting investigations or developing intelligence. Criminals will post a surprising amount of useful and even incriminating information online.
By James Green, Jr.
Have you ever wondered how the President and senior policymakers arrive at national security decisions? How our military forces maneuver through the battle spaces and know exactly where enemy forces are? What gives our first responders and other emergency personnel an advantage during natural or man-made disasters?
Cyber security and data privacy remain a hot topic as Facebook prepares to go public today with its initial public offering.Jeremiah Grossman, a world-renowned expert in Web security and co-founder of the Web Application Security Consortium, says that Facebook will need to be even more concerned about cyber attacks since any type of attack might (temporarily) impact its stock price.
By Michael Sale
Yesterday, Sanford, Fla., Police Chief Bill Lee submitted his letter of resignation, 57 days after his department declined to arrest neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
By William Tucker
It is still early in the reporting on this claim out of Iran, but sources from outside the country have confirmed that Iran has been forced to take computers belonging to the Oil Ministry offline. If this was a deliberate attack, it would be the fourth publically known cyber attack against Iran since the discovery of Stuxnet.
It’s been five years today since a mentally ill student opened fire at Virginia Tech killing 32 students and himself. Just last month, a U.S. jury found the university guilty of negligence for failing to alert students in a timely manner when the 2007 shooting spree started.
There has been a lot of attention recently about neighborhood watches after the “captain” of a neighborhood watch in Sanford, Fla. shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin. Media outlets are asking if the shooter, George Zimmerman, was just looking out for his neighborhood where there had been multiple break-ins recently, or if he was a wannabe cop who tried to take justice into his own hands.
There is no denying the fact that the world we know is rapidly changing. It’s difficult for even the most technologically adept individuals to keep up with all the advancements in technology. While some of us may not want to accept these changes, they often cannot be avoided and become requirements of our jobs. There was recently an