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Technofile: Cybercrime

Cyberattacks Grow More Complex

03/26/2013 - While cyberattacks on government targets make the headlines, cyberthieves continue their relentless assault on businesses.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues

Firearms

02/19/2013 - According to the Texas Attorney General’s office, state law makes it illegal for employers to prohibit employees from storing handguns in locked, private vehicles.
Beyond Print: Drug Control

Discrimination

02/19/2013 - A workplace policy that requires all employees who seek treatment for substance abuse to submit to random drug testing constitutes disability discrimination, according to a New Jersey appeals court. The tests could not be justified by business necessity or for safety reasons and were required of those employees with no history of poor performance.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues

Investigations

02/19/2013 - The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a company is liable for pretexting undertaken by a third party on the company’s behalf. The court ruled that the company must pay compensatory and punitive damages to the employee who was the target of the investigation.
Beyond Print: Research & Studies

Employment

02/19/2013 - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that a company violated federal law when it fired an employee for writing offensive and threatening remarks on newsletters in a staff break room.
Legal Issues

Legal Report

02/19/2013 - Courts have issued decisions on employee misconduct, background screening, and investigations.
Book Reviews: Risk Management

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance: It Can’t Happen to Us—Avoiding Corporate Disaster While Driving Success

02/19/2013 - Although its intended audience is primarily senior corporate executives and board members, this book also makes an excellent how-to manual for any security manager.
Daily Headline : Access Control

How to Spot a Fake ID

02/07/2013 - Security Officers need to be able to spot fake IDs presented at security checkpoints. Read about the most important questions they should ask and what they should look for on a driver's license.
Daily Headline : How-to

CSO Wisdom: Get Smarter with These Tips From the Top

02/06/2013 - Ever wish you could sit down with the top Chief Security Officers (CSOs) in the profession and get them to give you their best advice and lessons learned?
Daily Headline : Guards \ Security Officers

Morning Security Brief: Guard Company Sued After Sexual Assault, Surveillance Laws, Presidential Thief Sentenced, and More

01/10/2013 - A woman is suing a security guard; Electronic Arts, where he worked; and the security guard company that employed him, after she was sexually assaulted on the job. How surveillance laws apply to text messaging apps. Man pleads guilty to stealing presidential equipment. And More.
Daily Headline : Guards \ Security Officers

CPJ Issues Statement on Newspaper That Hired Armed Guards

01/08/2013 - “No journalist should be threatened in response to critical reporting,” the Committee to Protect Journalists says about the Journal News.
Daily Headline : Border Security

Most CBP’s Problem Agents Come from Posts on the Southwest Border

01/04/2013 - A GAO investigation found that 65 percent of arrests for misconduct or corruption were of border patrol officers and agents stationed along the United States’ border with Mexico.
Beyond Print: Workplace Violence

Workplace Violence

12/19/2012 - A study conducted by the John Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response examines hospital shootings.
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