INFORMATION
International: Crime
08/31/2010 - 7
The number of countries effectively curbing foreign bribery of public officials, according to a new report on combating global corruption by Transparency International.
Daily Headline : Web-based Threats
08/25/2010 - Unknown killers posted two hit lists on Facebook, listing 100 names from the Colombian town of Puerto Asis. Three teenagers on the list have met violent deaths.
Daily Headline : Research & Studies
08/16/2010 - A new Pentagon project looks to detect the chemical signature of fertilizer-based IEDs in Afghanistan.
Site Article(seminar_interview)
08/16/2010 - International security expert Olle Fjordgren discusses why animal rights and environmental extremism will constitute the fifth wave of terrorism.
Daily Headline : Contingency Planning \ Disaster Management
08/11/2010 - This week the World Health Organization declared the H1N1 “swine” flu pandemic over, renewing calls that the organization should change the criteria for its six-level pandemic scale or risk increased ambivalence toward public health threats.
Daily Headline : Contingency Planning \ Disaster Management
08/11/2010 - A Russian journalist says the massive wildfires currently consuming much of Russia's European forests have exposed a critical vulnerability in the country's disaster preparedness: the society's utter lack of trustworthy news and information.
Daily Headline : Security Management
08/06/2010 - Multinational corporations must the weigh the delicate balance between their security culture, their industry's security culture, and the security culture of where they do business.
Daily Headline : Public-Private Partnerships
08/03/2010 - TAPPS, a public-private partnership between police and private security in Toronto, helped minimize property damage during the G20 Summit in late June.
Daily Headline : IT Security
08/02/2010 - The United Arab Emirates decided Sunday to suspend BlackBerry smartphones' data services—e-mail, instant messaging, and Web browsing—beginning in October because of security concerns.
International: Best Practices \ Case Studies
07/27/2010 - To ensure that security measures are in line with a region’s actual risk, multinational companies must consider corporate culture and employee attitudes.
Daily Headline : Border Security
07/20/2010 - The drug war just across the border from El Paso, Texas, just got closer to Baghdad last week after Cuidad Juárez experienced its first car bomb, killing two police officers and a paramedic and injuring seven people.
Daily Headline : Terrorism
07/19/2010 - A retired Israeli intelligence professional offers alternative ways to fight al Qaeda and jihadism in general.
Daily Headline : ID issues \ Identity Theft
07/15/2010 - The U.S. State Department issued about 4,500 passports during fiscal year 2008 to registered sex offenders, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. The State Department says there is nothing it can do about it within the law.