| Theft suspect returns to store
A man who was caught on tape stealing a money bag at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, apparently returned to steal items from a game case in the same store. According to the report on file at the Forrest City Police Department, the unknown white male was observed on video camera between midnight and 7 a.m. on Tuesday, stealing a money bag that was at a cash register. The bag contained $541 in cash along with some Wal-Mart keys. According to the report, the same man returned later and used the keys to get into the game case, stealing some video games valued at $548. The suspect is being sought. Another alleged would-be thief was not as fortunate, at around 11:30 Tuesday night. The police department received a call that someone had jumped the fence at the Forrest City School District�s bus shop.
Reports show identity theft is a growing business, costing billions
More than 8 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2005, as hundreds of data breaches cost businesses and consumers untold billions. Those are the findings of two reports that estimate the consequences and costs of all the electronic data losses that have put at least 215 million sensitive records into the wrong hands and spawned a new criminal epidemic of identity theft since counting began in 2005. The estimate of 8.3 million identify thefts came in a report the Federal Trade Commission issued Monday. Separately, private sector data security expert Larry Ponemon today will release the third in a series of surveys that looked closely at 35 of the nearly 310 security breaches that have been reported by U.S. companies and government agencies so far in 2007.
Blackwater: Bulging Biceps Fueled by Ideological Purity
Blackwater, the secretive private army now emerging into public view, is a perfect hinge linking two key elements of the Republican political base: America's war machine and a muscular form of fundamentalist Christianity. Military contractors such as Halliburton and Blackwater are the brainchild of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. A major goal of Cheney when he was secretary of defense in the first Bush administration was to privatize as much military work as possible, ostensibly to make it more efficient. He commissioned a study by Halliburton, which predictably liked the idea and wound up as America's largest military contractor. Cheney was hired as Halliburton's chief officer, awaiting the return of a Republican administration. When that occurred, Cheney and Rumsfeld enthusiastically promoted privatization, and went so far as to include private contractors in the "Total Force" of the American military, standing never before given to contractors.
Monday wild card
I'll let you decide who to believe. Me? I'm putting my money down on Howard, all the way. (BTW, you can read GoZZZer Ranch propaganda about the project, which was named after homesteader John Gozzer here, about company HQ in the old Blackwell House here, and about its Arrow Point impact here.) .
Opinion: Is cybercrime unstoppable?
Online crime is growing at breakneck speed while law enforcement, try as they might, have a hard time keeping up. Simon Moores reports on the state of cybercrime - and why it's so difficult to fight. The quiet bombshell dropped by Alan Jebson, chief operating officer at HSBC Bank, appeared to go unnoticed by journalists at last week's e-Crime Congress in London. In his keynote speech to 500 law enforcement, government and business leaders from around the world, Jebson suggested it would be reasonable to expect banks to provide online banking services only to those customers with a minimum standard of security, given many users' apparent unwillingness to take proper precautions against identity theft and other forms of online compromise. Last week's survey figures released by the UK National Hi-tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) revealed that net crime cost businesses �2.45bn in the last 12 months.
SupportSoft Helps Protect TalkTalk Customers Against Wireless Fraud
Households with unsecured wireless Internet make up around half of total wireless broadband users in the UK(1). Those without proper security on their network are vulnerable not only to piggy-backing, but to hackers who can access bank details, passwords and personal information. Consequences of these actions include identity theft as well as unauthorised spending on credit and debit cards. SupportSoft's SmartAccess(TM) software is rescuing wireless Internet users by automatically setting up their home security configurations, thereby minimising their exposure to fraud. .
Employment Law Alert: New Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 ...
U.S. immigration authorities have released a revised Form I-9, the form used by employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of new hires. A copy of the new Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form and the revised 47-page Handbook for Employers, Instructions for Completing the Form I-9 (publication M-274) are available free of charge from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Web site. PDF copies of the November 7 USCIS news release, the updated I-9 Handbook for Employers and the new I-9 Form are available at the end of this article. Faegre & Benson�s Immigration Team has prepared the following questions and answers to explain the significance of the new Form I-9 and Handbook for Employers: 1. What's new on the I-9? Not much.
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The bill is having trouble in the Senate because of these two provisions. "[Oil] is the most profitable industry on earth and we need to pay for the bill," said Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. On the opposite side of the spectrum was Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas. "This bill could pass in a day if they stripped the taxes out and the renewable portfolio standard" for electricity production." Tougher fuel economy standards are likely to come down eventually no matter how long politicians and car companies tried to avoid the possibility. It's likely in the best interest of auto manufacturers to buckle down and plan ahead instead of hoping that the "worst thing possible" -- i.e. tougher fuel economy standards -- will never happen. .
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