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OLD TECHNOLOGY VS NEW TECHNOLOGY
Receive Automated Product/Service Announcements HIDDEN CAMERAS BUILT-IN DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER VS WIRED AND WIRELESS HIDDEN CAMERAS Why bother with hiding or wiring coax cables, programming time-lapse recorders or dealing with poor wireless signals (transmitting your images all over the neighborhood!) preventing you from getting the critical video evidence you need? OLD…
How to Track a Cell Phone Even When It’s Not Being Used
The U.S. Department of Justice now says its use of a cellphone-tracking device in a controversial Arizona case could be considered a "search" under the Fourth Amendment, a tactical move legal experts say is designed to protect the secrecy of the new cell phone locators. How to Track a Cell Phone…
How To Survive A Kidnapping
Anyone may be kidnapped or have a member of their family kidnapped. Unfortunately, most people don't know how to deal with kidnappers or how to survive the ordeal if they themselves are kidnapped or taken hostage. Here are some easy steps so you can be prepared. How To Survive A Kidnapping…
Radon Gas Detection
Epidemiological studies have shown a clear link between breathing high concentrations of radon and incidence of lung cancer. Thus, radon is considered a significant contaminant that affects indoor air quality worldwide. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency , radon is the second most frequent cause of lung cancer,…
Loss Prevention
Courtesy of the DPL-Surveillance-Equipment.com Loss Prevention Team Loss Prevention has become as important to retail profits as products, pricing and promotion. Retailers can preserve -- and often increase -- profits simply by investing in systems that reduce shoplifting and internal theft . U.S. retailers lose $38 billion every year to shrinkage. Many retailers…
Phishing/Scamming: Why You Shouldn’t Take The Bait!
Phishing/Scamming One of the primary reasons for the severe increase in phishing/scamming among and individuals and smaller organizations is that online criminals believe these institutions and people do not possess the resources, knowledge or employees to protect themselves or respond to a phishing/scamming attack. Many of the larger banks, retailers…
Fraud Prevention Tips For Crypto-Currency, Credit Card And Fiat-Based Holders
This type of fraud has evolved to become more innovative and intimate—and is more common than you might think. Fraud Prevention Tips For Crypto-Currency, Credit Card And Fiat-Based Holders Confidence fraud happens when a scammer assumes an online identity to befriend a victim or form a personal connection. This effort…
How To Evade A Wiretap
The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped to stop the recorder remotely, according to research by computer security experts who studied the system. It is also possible to falsify the numbers dialed, they said. How To…
One Big Mesh
The high-profile attention to public safety and homeland security is driving the video surveillance industry to adopt newer digital technologies to replace the analog CCTV systems that currently represent most of the camera systems in use today. One Big Mesh Not surprisingly, the Internet also is transforming the surveillance industry, thanks…
THE FUTURE OF HAND-HELD EXPLOSIVES DETECTION
Disadvantages of IMS Systems IMS instruments normally contain a small quantity of radioactive material as an ionizing source. This radioactive source does not pose any health risks if the system is operated properly, but simply having such a source may lead to extra paperwork and regulatory oversight. THE FUTURE OF HAND-HELD…
Squeezing the Most Out of Your Digital Video Recording System (Part II)
Rather than primarily being used after the fact to review a scenario or sequence of events, video also can be used in more proactive ways as a prevention tool. Properly integrated with existing systems and operational processes, network video can help a wide variety of businesses operate in a more…
Smart Phone Security (Part II)
How To Protect Your Smart Phone Once upon a time, a phone was just a phone: It simply made and received calls. The only security you worried about was if someone had picked up in the other room to listen in. Smart Phone Security (Part II) Flash forward to 2011, and…