News archives - October 2011
Vancouver police to announce riot charges
About 150 photos of suspected rioters have been posted to a special Vancouver police website. The first charges against the alleged looters and vandals in the Stanley Cup ...
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Be advised for travel to & from work: Yonge subway section to close this weekend
A section of the Yonge subway line will be shut down this weekend as the TTC undertakes track upgrades at St. Clair station. The work will halt su...Read more
Thieves stealing memorial statues to sell for scrap metal
Police in the UK are hunting thieves who stole the bronze statue of a Second World War soldier from a memorial in a military town. The one-of...Read more
Canada's homicide rate declines to 44-year low
Canada's homicide rate declines to 44-year low Canada's homicide rate last year fell to the lowest level since the mid-1960s, according to Statisti...Read more
Morning Security Brief: Border Security
A bill designed to increase border security would exempt Border Patrol from 36 environmental laws along the Canadian and Mexican borders. The Nati...Read more
More security as retailers worried about 'Flash Robs'
Retail organizations and law enforcement are hiring more security and monitoring social media in preparation for holiday ‘flash robs.’ ...Read more
Adobe remedies webcam spy hole in Flash
Adobe has closed a clickjacking hole in Adobe Flash that attackers could use to spy on victims via their camera and microphone without being notice...Read more
Criminals turn to 'card-trapping' at ATM machines to get cash
Criminals are embracing methods to trap debit and credit cards in ATMs for retrieval later, a move believed to be motivated by better security meas...Read more
Not that kind of shake, rattle and roll
Thursday marks B.C.'s second Province-wide earthquake drill. "Currently we're sitting at just over 500,000 people that have registered for the dri...Read more
RIM unveils new BlackBerry operating system
Research In Motion showed the world BBX, the next-generation operating system for its smartphones and tablets, at an annual conference for software...Read more
Occupy Canada protests persist as work week begins
Business people reportedly express sympathy to activists' cause. Canada's Occupy movement is gathering steam Monday morning, following a weekend o...Read more
Protestors prepare to Occupy Winnipeg
A protest against corporate greed and economic inequality that started in New York is going global on Saturday and Winnipeg is among the Canadian c...Read more
RIM says BlackBerry service restored
Global BlackBerry service is fully restored, Research in Motion said Thursday morning, though there may still be delays in transmitting instant mes...Read more
'Occupy Canada' protests
Canadian cities are expected to get their first taste of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement this weekend amid questions about what reception the nor...Read more
After some major delays at Pearson, security workers suspended
Dozens of airport security workers have been suspended and could face legal action following a work-to-rule campaign that has caused intermittent b...Read more
Wash. state man accused of selling map of cameras posted at U.S.-Canada border
A Washington state man allegedly sold maps that showed the location of Border Patrol sensors and cameras at the U.S.-Canada border to someone he th...Read more
Researcher winces at facial-expression technology as threat tip
Millions of dollars may be being misspent on threat-detection methods that rely on facial expression recognition, according to a report this month ...Read more
Canada signs Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
The US and Canada, along with six other countries, signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement over the weekend. The aim of the accord is to ta...Read more
More charges expected in multimillion-dollar Sask. drug bust
Police are anticipating further charges and possible seizures in an investigation involving law enforcement north and south of the border that&rsqu...Read more
Preventing Crowd Violence
Book review: Preventing Crowd Violence. By Tamara D. Madensen and Johannes Knutsson. Reviewed by Dr. Steve Albrecht, CPP While the book is written...Read more