Engaging users to augment healthcare security training

The healthcare industry has unique data sets that are accessed by a wide range of individuals with a host of government regulations hanging over it. So it stands to reason that there would be some new ideas and different approaches needed for user training. As HealthITSecurity.com chatted with Mac McMillan about earlier this week, part of security training is changing non-technical user culture and instilling best practices on a day-to-day basis. Another aspect in helping staff members in a healthcare organization avoid human error is consistent engagement, according to Lance Spitzner, Training Director of the SANS Securing the Human Program.
Read more at : http://healthitsecurity.com/2013/08/07/engaging-users-to-augment-healthcare-security-training/

UH gets $5M Homeland Security training grant

The University of Hawaii at Manoa is getting a $5 million federal grant to help train first responders to prepare for emergencies.

U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa's office announced the grant on Friday. The Democrat representing urban Honolulu said in a statement that the grant will help keep residents and visitors safe during natural disasters and other threats.

Read more at : http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UH-gets-5M-Homeland-Security-training-grant-4721479.php

SANS CyberCon Fall 2013 provides essential Cyber Security Training

SANS today announced they will provide essential cyber security training at SANS CyberCon Fall 2013, an online information security training event, Sept 9^th – 14^th, 2013. According to Lloyd's Risk Index List 2013, "cyber security now sits squarely towards the top of the agenda for boards around the world with cyber risk moving from 12th to 3rd place in the index. Business leaders have woken up to the importance of cyber security following a series of high profile incidents since 2011." (1)

"SANS CyberCon is great for organizations that need their employees to receive world-class cyber training to protect their systems while not needing a travel budget," states Steve Peterson, Director of SANS Online Training.

Read more at : http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sans-cybercon-fall-2013-provides-essential-cyber-security-training-219286941.html

Five healthcare security training expert tips

The need for wholesale data security training changes in healthcare evident, irrespective of whether it’s educating non-IT clinical staff members on HIPAA basics or further education for IT professionals. Most healthcare pros will agree that the usual methods, such as annual training classes, aren’t well-suited for current technologies and compliance requirements.
There isn’t a proverbial silver bullet to fix the security gaps within healthcare organizations, but there some success stories that experts have shared with HealthITSecurity.com over the past few months.
Read more at : http://healthitsecurity.com/2013/08/14/five-healthcare-security-training-expert-tips/

Westfield school personnel attend security training

Building principals, assistant principals and front office staff in the 10 Westfield Public Schools attended security training on Aug. 14 in preparation for the new school year.
Similar training is scheduled for teachers.

Conducted by the district’s security consultant, the purpose of the Aug. 14 training was “to provide Westfield Public School front office staff with concepts and ideas for maintaining a secure and safe environment, and for improving observation, detection and reporting skills,” explained Michael Weissman, Assistant Superintendent of Pupil Personnel Services and Lead Coordinator of the district’s Emergency Preparedness Committee.
Read more at : http://www.nj.com/suburbannews/index.ssf/2013/08/westfield_school_personnel_att.html  

Beware of Hema: America’s newest security threat

In the days before 9/11 the greatest threat to American security was not a bearded young man of brownish complexion from a turbulent part of the world. It was a desi aunty.
I remember standing at the Chicago airport watching sniffer dogs being led to giant bulging suitcases by unsmiling uniformed customs officials. I was freshly arrived in the country, nervous about navigating it on my own, but I was waved through with barely a glance. The middle aged lady in front of me however was pulled out of line and made to stand helplessly at a table while two officials rifled through her over-stuffed VIP suitcase.
Read more at : http://www.firstpost.com/world/beware-of-hema-americas-newest-security-threat-1029887.html

Napolcom amends guidelines on VIP security detail uniform

The National Police Commission (Napolcom) on Friday issued its amended policy guidelines on the wearing of uniform by police officers on VIP (very important person) security detail.
Napolcom vice chairman and Executive Officer Eduardo Escueta said the agency has approved Memorandum Circular No. 2013-006 further amending the general guidelines and procedures on the detail of police uniformed personnel as protective security as provided for under MC No. 2009-004.
Read more at : http://www.philstar.com/nation/2013/07/26/1016331/napolcom-amends-guidelines-vip-security-detail-uniform

Folsom firm lands $95M deal with Homeland Security

Folsom-based information technology and managed-services firm Visionary Integration Professionals - along with wholly owned subsidiary Meridian Knowledge Solutions - has been awarded a $95 million single-award blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Read more at : http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/13/5647272/folsom-firm-lands-95m-deal-with.html

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VIP lands $95M purchase agreement with Homeland Security

Folsom-based Visionary Integration Professionals LLC was awarded a $95 million blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
VIP will provide more than 250,000 employees in the agency with a secure cloud-based talent management system, which can analyze employee skills and automate training and education.
Read more at : http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2013/08/07/vip-subsidiary-meridian-homeland-securit.html

Homeland Security Picks Cloud For Training

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to a cloud-based talent and training management system intended to help identify skills and training needs across DHS headquarters and all eight of the department's component agencies: Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Secret Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Read more at : http://www.informationweek.com/government/cloud-saas/homeland-security-picks-cloud-for-traini/240159853

Cal State Offers Online Courses Across Campuses to Ease a Bottleneck

California State University is starting an online program this fall that will let students on any of the system’s 23 campuses enroll in online courses offered by another campus to obtain credits they need to graduate, the Los Angeles Times reports. Officials hope the program will help students who have been shut out of hard-to-get classes find the courses they need and graduate faster.
Read more at : http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/cal-state-offers-online-courses-across-campuses-to-ease-a-bottleneck/64289

IMF Launches Online Economics Learning for Global Classroom

And courses that have thus far been restricted to IMF member country officials will be available to students, bankers—anyone who’s interested and has an internet connection.
Thanks to a new partnership with edX, the nonprofit online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the IMF will soon start offering economics courses online to officials from around the world to complement its traditional training delivery. Free public access, through so-called massive open online courses (MOOCs), will follow in 2014.
Read more at : http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2013/NEW061913A.htm

Todai, Kyoto U. to offer free online courses

Many universities have found tremendous success in attracting students from abroad by making their lectures available to the public free of charge on the Internet. The University of Tokyo and Kyoto University have expressed their intention of joining the bandwagon of massive open online courses (MOOC) that provide distance education via video and other means.
Hitoshi Murayama recently gave a lecture in English on the origins and development of the universe at the University of Tokyo.
Read more at : http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000433075

Students shun art courses at university for 'profitable' vocational degrees

University students are shunning arts and humanities courses in favour of more practical subjects which they believe will improve their job prospects.

Research found that applications for courses such as engineering and medicine have risen by more than a quarter in the last five years.

By contrast, applications for linguistics and classic courses – including English – have fallen by 11 per cent, a study by HSBC found.

Read more at : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2391092/Students-shun-art-courses-university.html

Owens teacher helped develop online courses

Rose Marie Kuceyeski of Perrysburg, who taught business and information technology for nearly 30 years at Owens Community College, where she was nationally recognized for her involvement in higher education and working with traditional and nontraditional students, died Saturday at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg.

Mrs. Kuceyeski, 64, suffered from a rapidly spreading colon cancer, colleagues and friends said.
Read more at : http://www.toledoblade.com/Deaths/2013/08/12/Rose-Marie-Kuceyeski-1949-2013-Owens-teacher-helped-develop-online-courses.html

Homeland Security training New Mexico law officers

Homeland Security Investigations is hosting training sessions with New Mexico law enforcement agencies on how to handle a gunman during a mass shooting.
Deputies with the sheriff’s offices from Valencia and Socorro Counties, among others, are in Albuquerque this week for workshops on how to stop a gunman and ways to stem mass casualties.
Read more at : http://www.abqjournal.com/244761/news/homeland-security-training-new-mexico-law-officers.html

DEF CON Reminds Us of the Importance of Physical Security

Working in the bits and bytes software world of IT security, it's often easy to forget that the world around us still very much relies on physical security. It's a reminder I was served this past week when I spent far more time than I care to admit inside the Lockpick and Tamper Evident Villages at the DEF CON hacking conference.
See more at:http://www.eweek.com/blogs/security-watch/def-con-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-physical-security.html/

Physical security continues to be an issue at radio sites

At a time when significant amounts of national and international focus are being placed on privacy issues and the hacking of networks that house sensitive information, P25 operators currently have greater concerns about the physical security of their network equipment and systems.
 Read more at : http://urgentcomm.com/p25/physical-security-continues-be-issue-radio-sites

British Security Industry Association's (BSIA) Physical Security Equipment Section Updates Identity And Renews Strategic Focus

The Physical Security Equipment section of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) has marked its twentieth anniversary by updating its identity and renewing its strategic focus, in recognition of the growing number of applications of the physical security equipment produced by section members.
Read more at : http://us.sourcesecurity.com/news/articles/co-306-ga.11451.html

Westcon Security Solutions appointed Cisco Physical Security partner

Westcon Security Solutions is, as part of a global first, now able to offer its reseller market access to the Cisco Physical Security portfolio with immediate effect.
The Cisco Physical Security solution set will afford Westcon Security Solutions’ resellers the opportunity to offer their clients access to cost-effective, modular, best-in-class physical security solutions that interoperate with their existing systems.
Read more at : http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65763:Westcon-Security-Solutions-appointed-Cisco-Physical-Security-partner&catid=234 

Benton commissioners back criminal justice tax

A sales tax increase to help with criminal justice needs such as a mental health court could be on the ballot in Benton County as early as next summer.

County commissioners on Tuesday indicated they support the idea of sending a measure to voters. They asked staff to prepare a resolution that would set the process in motion, coming back to them for consideration at a future meeting.

Read more at : http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/latestlocalnews/1387837-8/benton-commissioners-back-criminal-justice-tax

Important Moment in Criminal Justice History

Formation of Justice Coalition an Important Moment in Criminal Justice History
“For the first time in the 170 year history of New Zealand’s criminal justice system, a group of non-government organisations has formed a coalition to work with government and criminal justice stakeholders, toward a more effective and fair criminal justice system”, says Kim Workman, interim Coordinator of the Justice Coalition. He was speaking at the parliamentary launch of the Justice Coalition, a collective of 12 Justice Sector NGO, who have formed a collective to work cooperatively with key justice sector stakeholders and government agencies, toward improved sector performance.
Read more at : http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1308/S00122/important-moment-in-criminal-justice-history.htm

Suffolk sheriff is trying to break criminal justice cycle

Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco is an unusual kind of sheriff. What law enforcement chief doesn't want a bigger jail? But he is doing all he can not to build.

On a recent Thursday morning, DeMarco eviscerated an 82-page report by the Suffolk County Probation Department that said the department is doing a great job of clearing the jail of nonviolent, low-level offenders, and preventing them from returning. DeMarco spoke to the county legislature's Public Safety Committee and made enough of an impression that it appears the legislature will vote on Sept. 14 to have an outside consultant come in to check the Probation Department's math.
Read more at : http://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/anne-michaud/michaud-suffolk-sheriff-is-trying-to-break-criminal-justice-cycle-1.5850544

Deal with criminal justice issues fiscally, conservatively

State Rep. Zach Cook wants to deal with criminal justice issues in a fiscal and conservative way.

 Cook, a Lincoln County Republican representing District 51 in the state House of Representatives, spoke about the concept Wednesday as the guest speaker of the Republican Women of Otero County's monthly luncheon meeting.

Read more at : http://www.alamogordonews.com/news/ci_23818424/state-rep-cook-spoke-at-republican-women-otero

Nashua Community College developing new criminal justice program with help from police

David Dinwoodie still remembers his time as a state police intern when he was a student at Saint Anselm College years ago.

It was 1988, and the northern town of Jefferson was plagued by a serial arsonist who set fire to brush, barns and inhabited homes for months. Dinwoodie’s internship sent him to the town with state police, participating on midnight patrols around the area.

Read more at : http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1012785-469/nashua-community-college-developing-new-criminal-justice.html

Private Detective Southampton Give Information Regarding Fraud Investigations in Light of BBC News Report: Criminal Gangs Target Student Loans Company

According to the BBC News report by Joe Kent dated 5 August 2013: Criminal gangs target Student Loans Company, more than £6.5m of tax payers’ money was paid out on fraudulent student loan applications. The fraudsters provide false exam certificates to applicants who then apply for university courses and student loans. The gang would charge £1000 for the certificates and also took a cut from the loan payments. Another method used to scam unsuspecting students would be to pose as their student loan company in an email asking them to update their details. The link would appear to be going to the official website but it would, in fact, take them to a website controlled by fraudster who would take their money.
Read more at : http://www.watchlistnews.com/2013/08/05/private-detective-southampton-give-information-regarding-fraud-investigations-in-light-of-bbc-news-report-criminal-gangs-target-student-loans-company/

Public bodies spent £3.9m on private investigators

Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money has been spent by local authorities to snoop on the public and their own staff, a pressure group has revealed.

Big Brother Watch used Freedom of Information requests to discover that over the past two years a total of £3.9m of taxpayers' money was spent by 37 councils, four quangos, and a central government department – the Department for Transport – hiring private detectives.
Read more at : http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=23644

Private investigator in Lloyd's of London blue-chip hacking claim

Last week, it emerged that ten insurance companies had been implicated in the use of the "rogue element of the private investigation industry", according to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).
And the Mail on Sunday reported that former Metropolitan Police detective John Spears had been employed by three international law firms which were working for underwriters in the Lloyd's market.
Read more at : http://www.insuranceage.co.uk/insurance-age/news/2286783/private-investigator-in-lloyds-of-london-bluechip-hacking-claim

ABI backs Home Office calls for regulation of private investigators

The ABI has joined others within the wider insurance industry in praising Home Secretary Theresa May's announcement that private investigators should require a license to operate.

Mark Allen, manager for fraud and financial crime at the ABI said: "The ABI supports proposals announced by the Home Secretary to ensure rigorous standards of practice and behaviour are upheld.
Read more at : http://www.postonline.co.uk/post/news/2286670/abi-backs-home-office-calls-for-regulation-of-private-investigators

The Protective Group Supports the Use of a Private Investigator to Perform Online Dating Background Checks

Leading security company, The Protective Group, remarks on an article published by ARLnow on July 26 titled “Private Detectives Offer Online Dating Background Checks” regarding the use of a private investigator to perform a background check on people you meet online before seeing them in real life.
According to an article published on ARLnow, a growing trend is among us in the private security business. More and more people are beginning to hire a private investigator to perform a background check on someone they met online to help inform their decision to meet them in person.
Read more at : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb10986033.htm

Forensic science graduate has been stopped 70 TIMES by police 'after splitting from her PC lover'

A forensic science graduate says her life was made a misery after she was allegedly harassed by police following a split from her PC boyfriend.

Katie Bowman, who has never been convicted of a crime, claims police interest in her – which saw her stopped 70 times for suspected offences ranging from drink-driving to assault – meant she could ‘barely leave the house’.

Read more at : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2366360/Forensic-science-graduate-stopped-70-TIMES-police-splitting-PC-lover.html

Forensic Science Investigation Leaves Young Campers 'Amazed'

The Audubon Junior Forensic Science Camp held their Mock Crime Scene Investigation in the Museum Garden at John James Audubon State Park on Friday to wrap up their week long activities.

The camp featured challenges for the kids using a mock forensics lab performing DNA extraction and modeling, skeletal reconstruction, and identifying a victim from dentistry, hair and fiber evidence. Special guests included law enforcement officers from Kentucky State Police Post 16, who provided free fingerprinting and a guest speaker who spoke about lie-detecting.
Read more at : http://surfky.com/index.php/communities/77-owensboro-news/35150-forensic-science-investigation-leaves-young-campers-amazed

Kenny MacAskill to see police forensic science lab

Kenny MacAskill’s visit comes before the Scottish Crime Campus opens in Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire later this year, where elements of the police force and other agencies will be based.
He will meet with Tom Nelson, director of SPA Forensic Services, and receive a tour of the lab in Dundee, which includes a photographic studio, chemistry, biology and drugs labs, and fingerprint and scene examination units.
Read more at : http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/kenny-macaskill-to-see-police-forensic-science-lab-1-3022661

Inconsistent standards and a lack of research investment have left UK legal science in chaos

This publication is steadfast in promoting the benefits of funding for research, but even we might not say that reductions in cash for science could be allowing murderers and rapists to roam our streets. We don’t have to: Andrew Miller has said it for us.

Miller leads the combative but respected (and cross-party) science select committee in the UK House of Commons. The committee last week produced a damning report — its second in just over three years — on the state of forensic science in the country. In his alarming sound bite, Miller neatly summarized the need for urgent government action, including dedicated funds for research into better sleuthing methods.
Read more at : http://www.nature.com/news/forensics-fiasco-1.13466

Neglecting forensic science threatens justice, MPs warn

 Ministers have been accused of being slow to recognise the wider impact that the closure of the national Forensic Science Service last year has had on the criminal justice system.

Since then some in-house police forensic laboratories have failed to make enough progress towards achieving the same standards as private providers, the Commons Science and Technology Committee concluded
Read more at : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10201340/Neglecting-forensic-science-threatens-justice-MPs-warn.html

Forensic science service closure criticised

The justice system’s ability to convict criminals is at risk following the closure of the UK’s Forensic Science Service (FSS) in March 2012, warn MPs. In a highly critical report, they condemn the government’s ‘hands-off’ approach and the chronic lack of funding for research in forensic science.
The government expected private firms and in-house police labs to take over from the FSS. But a report from the House of Commons science and technology committee found that private companies are struggling to operate in an ‘unstable’ market. Committee chair Andrew Miller MP blames a lack of strategy and singles out the minister for crime prevention, Jeremy Browne MP, for particular criticism
Read more at : http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/07/forensic-science-service-closure-criticised

The Criminal Profiling of Conservative White Males

What does it say that Leftists seem to react to virtually every highly visible criminal act with the hope that the "perp" is a white guy or, even better, a conservative white guy? 

Take four recent examples:  First, immediately after the January, 2011 shootings near Tucson, Arizona, the Left tried to link the culprit, Jared Lee Loughner, to the Right, only to discover that he was essentially apolitical and mentally unstable. 

Read more at :  http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/the_criminal_profiling_of_conservative_white_males.html

Criminal justice student win second $1,000 scholarship

University of Alaska student Lena Illig is the first person to be awarded a $1,000 Law Enforcement Education Program (LEEP) college scholarship two years in a row. Illig is among 21 top students who will receive the award to encourage their pursuit of law enforcement/public safety careers by the professional public safety officers of LEEP
Read more at : http://www.adn.com/2013/08/01/3003877/criminal-justice-student-win-second.html

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New Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Career Resource

A new website that is intended for individuals who are interested in training for a career in the criminal justice or law enforcement fields is now open to the public.

Online Criminal Justice Schools is a new website dedicated to educating students who are interested in criminal procedures and legal terminology. The OnlineCriminalJusticeschools.org website provides information about online classes for students who want to become police officers, probation officers, private security workers, federal law enforcement agency officers, paralegals or other related career positions.
Read more at : http://www.newswire.net/newsroom/pr/75957-criminal-justice-career.html

Criminal justice system 'failing' most rape victims

One of Australia's leading forensic medical experts says the criminal justice system consistently fails sex crime victims with many deserving cases not reaching court.
Victoria's head of clinical forensic medicine, Associate Professor David Wells, said the adversarial system was incapable of dealing with rape cases that were often reduced to one word against another.
Read more at : http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/1681215/criminal-justice-system-failing-most-rape-victims/?cs=12

Use statistics to better Delaware's criminal justice system

Due to a remarkable depth of research and statistical analysis, the governor, state legislators and every Delawarean now have detailed information about how and why former criminals are returning to jail and the state prisons after their initial release.
Read more at : http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130802/OPINION11/308020001/Use-statistics-better-Delaware-s-criminal-justice-system

Insurance companies implicated in use of rogue private investigators

Ten insurance companies have been implicated in the use of the “rogue element of the private investigation industry”, according to a report from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).

The Independent has reported that a range of blue-chip industries that have escaped any censure over their use of corrupt private investigators is soon to be revealed.
The 2008 report, entitled Private Investigators: The Rogue Element of the Private Investigation Industry and Others Unlawfully Trading in Personal Data, presents the results of Project Riverside, an investigation carried out by Soca and five other law enforcement agencies.
Read more at : http://www.insuranceage.co.uk/insurance-age/news/2285925/insurance-companies-implicated-in-use-of-rogue-private-investigators

PRIVATE INVESTIGATION LICENSING REACTION - The lady detective agency

We tell our clients all the time, 'if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to worry about'. With that in mind, why do so many investigators have problems with licensing our industry? Here at the 'lady detective agency' we believe the answer is simple! They too have something to hide!

We wholeheartedly welcome the news from Theresa May today. Finally, private investigators are going to be licensed.

We can say goodbye to the fraudulent people that plague our industry and tarnish our reputation. We're traditional investigators. We don't snoop behind computers and access criminal information. Our ethics and morals have always remained in tact, and we use traditional methods to get our answers. We don't need illegal information because our staff are experts in their jobs, and they simply do not require it.
Read more at : http://www.sourcewire.com/news/79020/private-investigation-licensing-reaction-the-lady-detective-agency

McCann Investigations Offering High-Technology Private Investigations Services

McCann Investigations, a firm based out of the Houston , TX area, announced its private investigations services.
The firm’s private investigations encompass a wide variety of fields, including digital forensics, traditional surveillance tactics, network forensics, embezzlement investigation, intellectual property theft investigations, background checks and more.
Read more at : http://www.prweb.com/releases/private-investigations/mccann-2013/prweb10975037.htm

Unlicensed private investigation to become a criminal offence

The current system, which is not regulated, allows anyone to work as a private investigator, regardless of their skills, experience or criminal convictions.
The new regulations, according to the Home Office, will thwart the high risk of rogue investigators unlawfully infringing on an individual’s privacy.

“It is vital we have proper regulation of private investigators to ensure rigorous standards in this sector and the respect of individuals’ rights to privacy”, said the Home Secretary.
Read more at :  http://www.theinformationdaily.com/2013/07/31/unlicensed-private-investigation-to-become-a-criminal-offence

Eye spy: crackdown on rogue private investigators

The Home Secretary announced that private investigators will need to be licensed by the Security Industry Authority (SIA) to operate legitimately. Such licences will be granted following a series of vigorous checks.

Investigative activities carried out for the purposes of publishing legitimate journalism will be excluded from regulation, she said.
Read more at : http://www.channel4.com/news/private-investigators-hacking-law-firm-soca-home-affairs

Sentencing set in Cleveland kidnap-rape case

Three months after an Ohio woman kicked out part of a door to end nearly a decade of captivity, a onetime school bus driver faces sentencing for kidnapping three women and subjecting them to years of sexual and physical abuse.

Prosecutors are expected to detail Ariel Castro's daily assaults on the women, recounted in diaries that compared the women's experience to that of prisoners of war. With the possibility of the death penalty for a forced miscarriage taken off the table, Castro stands to get life in prison plus 1,000 years on Thursday.
Read more at : http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/22985659/sentencing-set-in-cleveland-kidnap-rape-case

Takfiri militants kidnap Italian priest in Syria

Activists said on Wednesday members of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have kidnapped Father Paolo Dall'Oglio in the militant-held city.

Raqqa fell to the militants on Monday.

Syrian authorities expelled the Italian priest from the country last year over his anti-government activities. Dall'Oglio had been acting as an unofficial diplomat for the Syrian opposition, trying to heal sectarian rifts between activists in a bid to create a united opposition.
Read more at : http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/31/316556/militants-kidnap-italian-priest-in-syria/ 

Police Arrest 4 Kidnappers

The police have arrested four suspected notorious kidnappers in Enugu State who specialised in using text messages to threaten their victims.

It was gathered that the anti-kidnapping unit of the Enugu State police command carried out the arrest of the four suspected criminals following information from members of the public.
See more at : http://leadership.ng/news/310713/police-arrest-4-kidnappers#sthash.YDDdyfbx.dpuf

The Cult Who Kidnaps Christians and Is at War with the Chinese Government

  In some ways, Eastern Lightning are hilarious. For starters, the cult's core belief is that Jesus Christ has been reincarnated as a middle-aged Chinese woman called Lightning Deng who now lives in Chinatown in New York. Then there are the bizarre evangelizing attempts to recruit China's rural communities—stuff like the sudden appearance of live snakes painted with scripture and mysterious glow sticks hidden in people's homes that somehow (I'm really not sure how) signal the second coming of Christ.
Leaders of Christian groups warn their members against the "flirty fishing" methods supposedly adopted by Eastern Lightning ladies to convert Christian men to the path of their female Christ. Lastly, of course, there's the name, which sounds more like an energy drink or AC/DC cover band than a cult. Perhaps that's why, these days, they often use the alias "Church of the Almighty God."
Read more at : http://www.vice.com/read/the-chinese-cult-who-kidnap-christians-and-paint-snakes

AWDC Debuts Anti-Tiger Kidnapping Program

“We are fortunate that tiger kidnappings don’t happen often, but it’s crucial to prevent this type of crime at all cost,” said Ari Epstein, CEO of AWDC in a statement.
A "tiger kidnapping" is one in which business owners are kidnapped and forced to retrieve goods. The primary goal of the program is to explain and assist in the prevention and procedures that need to be applied in a tiger kidnapping in progress. The program was tailor-made for the Antwerp diamond industry.
Read more at : http://www.jckonline.com/2013/07/02/awdc-debuts-anti-tiger-kidnapping-program