Over the next month, South Korea’s prison service will engage in a trial testing the feasibility of robot wardens in its prisons. Developers say the robots will help reduce the workload of the guards.
Now you can follow updates from Security Management in real time. Earlier this week the magazine started a Twitter account to provide readers with one more way to keep updated throughout the month with current news affecting the security industry.
►On Cyber Monday, the FBI shut down 150 Web sites for selling counterfeit goods. The operation was a multi-agency effort called Operation in Our Sites that targets online retailers selling fake or pirated products. “For most, the holidays represent a season of good will and giving, but for these criminals, it’s the season to lure in unsuspecting holiday shoppers,” said ICE Director John Morton.
Internet memes die hard. And for law enforcement in the southwest, Pedobear is the meme that just won’t go away. Authorities in New Mexico say the meme has been adopted by sexual predators targeting children – a claim being laughed off by blogs and Internet meme trackers who say Pedobear is a harmless joke.
► Britain’s £650 million Cyber Security Strategy aims to both improve law enforcement efforts and to better educate British Internet users on the risks of online information theft, as well as to increase support to businesses that function in the cyber world.
Firefighters say the presence of illegal immigrants in border areas and fear for their safety keeps them from utilizing their full arsenal for stopping wildfires in the Arizona border region, according to a recently released Government Accountability Office (GAO)report.
The SAMATE Reference Dataset (SRD) is a database that provides security developers with a set of known security flaws to consider when creating cybersecurity software. That database just got a lot larger.
► Is a sniff by a drug dog a search covered by the Fourth Amendment? The Supreme Court will soon decide. Police in Florida were tipped off that someone was growing marijuana inside a house, but after surveillance of the house, nothing turned up. A detective took a drug-sniffing dog to the porch of the house and the dog alerted that it smelled marijuana. The defendant, Joelis Jardines, argued that the sniff on the porch was an illegal search.
