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SP's MAI May 16-31, 2011 - Internal Security Updates

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / VIEWPOINT
  The Humint factor
  By Lt Gen (Retd) PC Katoch

  Suitable application of HUMINT, duly integrated with modern surveillance technology and processing capacity...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  RBI advises banks to set up whistle-blowing system

  The Reserve Bank of India has directed the banks to put in place a strong whistleblowing system as well as reward employees who help prevent cyber frauds.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  Osama phishing scams

  Even in death, Osama bin Laden continues to trouble. In the Internet world, there has been a wave of phishing scams in his name designed to collect personal or financial information.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Harry Potter’s author skips screening

  Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling persuaded security staff at a New York airport to let her breach baggage restrictions – because she refused to be parted from the manuscript of the final ‘Potter’ book.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Britain’s biggest gem heist

  Scotland Yard have issued CCTV images of two men dressed in suits, concealing handguns, who escaped with 43 rings, bracelets, necklaces and watches from the central London store in August last.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  The Malaysian arms heist

  It was Malaysia’s largest military weapon heist that turned into a hostage crisis and a five-day standoff with the police and army.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  CISF security for Infosys Pune centre

  The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has been asked to provide security cover to Infosys Pune centre following threat perception to major infrastructure facilities including those of the private sector.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  Full-body scan not a health risk

  A study by Pratik Mehta of University of California, Berkeley and Dr Rebecca Smith-Bindman of University of California

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  Electric vehicles for military, security and police

  The latest IDTechEx report has projected a rising market for electric vehicles for military, security and police duty.

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  Taliban prisoners escape à la the Great Escape

  Close to 500 Taliban prisoners recently escaped from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan through a tunnel hundreds of metres long.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  Sony hires cyber-security detectives

  Sony has hired cyber-security detectives from Guidance Software and consultants from Robert Half International Inc’s subsidiary Protiviti to help clean its networks and...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  EU carbon trading resumes

  Following cyber thefts in several countries and loss of carbon accounts, the European Union had shut down trading in emission certificates.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Civil Aviation Ministry reiterates air safety

  The Civil Aviation Ministry’s resolve is to have a zero tolerance approach towards safety of the aviation sector.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Woman with gun arrested at Delhi airport

  The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at the Indira Gandhi International Airport found a woman carrying a country-made pistol in her check-in baggage.