Is the Department of Education liable if one of its teachers sexually assaults a student? Can a security provider be held liable for an unlawful assault by one of its security guards on a member of the public? These are scenarios that Courts have recently considered in relation to employer...
This report provides background information concerning security guards in the United States and their role in critical infrastructure protection. It analyzes trends in the number and deployment of security guards, including effects of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11). It discusses the wages paid to security guards compared...
SEATTLE -- The Justice Department asked a federal court Tuesday to revoke the citizenship of an 86-year-old Seattle-area man, saying he served in a Nazi unit that slaughtered 17,000 Serbian civilians during World War II. Peter Egner, a native of Yugoslavia, served as a guard and interpreter...
LONDON -- In a case that changed the face of air travel, three men charged with a plot to kill trans-Atlantic airline passengers with bombs in soda bottles admitted Monday they intended to cause explosions. But the men appealed to the jury to believe their story --...
Tecra M10, Tecra A10 Laptops Provide a Superior Balance of Performance, Mobility and Security for Business and Education Users IRVINE, Calif. -- Toshiba's Digital Products Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced the Tecra[R] M10 and Tecra[R] A10 laptop PCs with Intel[R] Centrino[R] 2...
Edwin Sotomayor is the crash- test dummy in an upcoming legal collision between the National Rifle Association and Disney World. The 36-year-old was fired last week from his job as an unarmed security guard at the Orlando theme park after he took his .45-caliber handgun to work, the Orlando Sentinel...
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Britain is responsible for the abuse of hundreds of failed asylum- seekers at the hands of private security guards during their forced removal from this country, a report into the treatment of refugees alleges today. The findings, based on nearly 300 cases of alleged physical assault and...
From the hordes of paparazzi, camera crews and satellite trucks - and the security guards hired to contain them - it was obvious that a matter of great international importance was lurking within Nice's Lenval hospital. But this was no medical breakthrough, no cure for cancer. The...
United States Coast Guard Intelligence Program Using SecureOffice Trusted Thin Client to Provide Access from SIPRNet to NIPRNet HERNDON, Va. -- Trusted Computer Solutions, Inc. TCS, a leading supplier of cross domain solutions for government and industry, announced today that the company's SecureOffice[R] Trusted Thin Client[R] product is...
Arcot Systems today announced theavailability of itsArcot A-OK On-Demand multi-factor authentication and single sign-on serviceon the Force.com AppExchange from salesforce.com. Built using the Force.complatform, the service is Force.com AppExchange certified and immediatelyavailable for deployment at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/ . The Arcot A-OK On-Demand service verifies and protects online identitiesand data of...
CARROLLTON, Texas -- B&B ARMR Corporation, a subsidiary of Integrated Security Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: IZZI), announced today that they have completed a contract, valued at approximately $140,000, for several of its Model 730 drop arm barriers for a National Guard facility in the Southeastern U.S. The barriers are designed to...
Ground-Breaking Network Access and Policy Management Solution Honored in Three Categories DALLAS -- Global DataGuard, the premier provider of network behavioral analysis-based NBA Enterprise Unified Threat Management for small and medium business to large enterprise environments today announced that Info Security Products Guide, a worldwide expert in the...
WASHINGTON -- Bert and Ernie are paying a special visit to the city that helped give birth to the "Sesame Street" gang. But don't expect to see the popular puppets strolling around Washington. Their fame and age (they're sensitive to light) make too much exposure a security...
Highlights: * SkyLife, Korea's only digital satellite pay-TV operator, has selected market-leading NDS VideoGuard([R]) conditional access and MediaHighway([R]) middleware to secure its new live High Definition HD broadcast service * New agreement expands the existing long-standing relationship between NDS and SkyLife SEOUL, South Korea...
RIYADH AFP — Saudi border guards have seized almost a tonne of explosives and large quantities of arms and drugs on Yemen's border over the past three months, making hundreds of arrests, Okaz newspaper said on Saturday. The paper, quoting the guards, said 13 hand- and rocket-propelled grenades,...
Salt Lake police say the man who shot and killed a homeless man in an apparent case of self-defense had a concealed weapons permit. More information about the fatal incident was released by police Friday. Mike Mays, 47, was walking along West Temple just...
SANTIAGO AFP — A pole dancer who took her writhing spins where they had never been -- onto a pole inside a subway car -- perked up the morning commute before her underground career was cut tragically short. Monserrat Morilles, 26, for the past few days had been...
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Gunmen believed inspired by al-Qaida stormed a guard post at the U.S. consulate Wednesday, touching off a firefight that killed three police and three assailants in the latest sign of Turkey's difficulty in clamping down on homegrown militants. The bearded gunmen emerged from a...
GENEVA AFP — Thirty young girls have been camping for days outside Geneva's largest concert hall to get front row standing space at a gig by teen Indie rock group Tokio Hotel, a newspaper said Wednesday. The group is set to play this Saturday in the hall which...
