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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2016

Twitter Shuts Down 125K Terrorist Accounts

Well-known social networking service Twitter Inc. has suspended 125,000 accounts for promoting or threatening terrorism.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2016

FLEOA Issues Statement on Latest Federal Security Hack

The government's leisurely reaction to these cyber incidents continues to put the personal information of federal employees in jeopardy, particularly those with high-level security access.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2016

Hacker Posts FBI, DHS Employee Data

A hacker on Monday published information that exposes the names, titles, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses for thousands of FBI employees, after leaking similar data about 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employees Sunday.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 6, 2016

Digital Ally Releases VuVault 4.7 Software

Digital Ally has released new software updates for its local VuVault platform. Newly added features are designed to make it easier for you to manage your evidence and stay current with the latest technology.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 5, 2016

Rapists Increasingly Using Dating Apps, Social Media to Lure Victims

Dallas Police say a growing number of predators who use social media and dating apps such as Tinder, Kik, PlentyOfFish, MocoSpace and MeetMe to prey on unsuspecting women.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 2, 2016

Video: Dutch Police Train Eagles to Take Down Drones

The Dutch police have partnered with Guard From Above, a raptor training company based in The Hague, to determine whether eagles could be used as intelligent, adaptive anti-drone weapon systems.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 1, 2016

Impact Power Technologies Awarded Boston PD Radio Battery Replacement Contract

Impact Power Technologies (IPT) won the Boston PD bid against five competitors for conversion of its Motorola XTS 2500 radio batteries to IPT extended life batteries.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 1, 2016

Corrections Facility Equips Officers With Utility's BodyWorn Cameras

Utility, Inc. officially announced the Atlanta Department of Corrections has deployed Utility's BodyWorn police body cameras—the only automated, policy-based, body-worn police camera currently available on the market, according to the company.

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Articlesby Melanie BasichJanuary 28, 2016

The Mechanical Nose Knows

Law enforcement can use the Fido X2 for first-level screening at security checkpoints or during high alert stages to detect explosive residue on vehicles and personal belongings and get results within 10 seconds.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 21, 2016

SHOT Show 2016: Vievu, Safariland Introduce Technology for Activating Body Camera when Officer Draws Weapon

At the SHOT Show this week body-worn camera maker Vievu and its parent company Safariland showed auto-activation technology for triggering a recording on a body-worn camera once a weapon is drawn from an officer’s Safariland 7TS series duty holster or once an item of equipment is removed from an officer’s Safariland ALERT Belt.

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