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Social Intelligence: Employers Demand Facebook Passwords
Some employers are demanding that job seekers provide their Facebook passwords as part of their employment application. Is this a smart step in pre-emptive security or simply a coercive hiring...
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Top Banks Targeted by “Vishing” Attacks
The five largest U.S. banks – and thousands of their consumer and business customers – were targets of phone-based phishing fraud in the second half of 2011. In total, the attacks targeted 30 of the...
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Beacon Client Wins $11.6 Million Verdict in Bus Crash
Two women were awarded an $18.5 million verdict by a Texas jury for injuries sustained when the Greyhound bus they were riding flipped over while the driver was talking on his cell phone. That...
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Legal Investigator’s Guide to Competitive Intelligence
In today’s increasingly complex globalized economy, corporate executives often lack critical information on new customers, suppliers, distributors, technologies and emerging markets. Even at midsize...
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A Drone of Your Own: The Future of Domestic Surveillance
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled against warrantless GPS tracking by police officers, law enforcement agencies are gearing up for next big development in domestic surveillance: unmanned aerial...
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When Your Company Secrets Walk Out the Front Door
More than half of European office workers take sensitive company data with them when they’re fired or switch jobs, according to a recent survey from Iron Mountain. Workers in the U.K. are only...
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What You Need to Know When Hiring a Private Investigator
Hiring a private investigator isn’t something people tend to do all too often. Many people never require the services of a private investigator, and most of those who do – apart from attorneys and...
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Beacon Director Featured on Huffington Post
During a recent engagement to conduct competitive intelligence and due diligence for a major corporation, Beacon discovered that the target was engaged in a complex, multi-million-dollar fraud....
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A Year After Landmark Supreme Court Decision, GPS Tracking in Legal Limbo
When most people think of GPS trackers, the images that spring to mind include cheating spouses, concerned parents, and police covertly tracking criminals. Yet GPS is also used for many legitimate...
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Why Your Company’s Big Crisis Won’t be a Black Swan
In this new white paper, Beacon offers a fresh interpretation of – and partial corrective to – the popular ‘Black Swan Theory’ of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in light of risk-related disasters at JPMorgan...
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10 Reasons to Run an Asset Search
Asset searches can be an extremely valuable tool for attorneys, investors, executives and individual litigants, if conducted by an experienced private investigator with the proper skills and...
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MSN News: Beacon CEO on Finding Missing Persons
When a child is lost, or a family member goes missing, the typical first response is to panic. The second is to call the police – and then endure many fretful hours, days or weeks waiting for news....
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International Asset Searches and Money Laundering
Finding offshore funds — and the future of money laundering — are the focus of this article by Beacon director John Powers, published this week in Pursuit Magazine, a leading educational resource for...
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How a Trail of Debt Can Lead to Assets
The Role of Credit History in an Asset Search… Credit history plays a critical role in any comprehensive asset search. Identifying the current debts of consumers or businesses is often a starting...
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Snowden, From a Private Investigator’s Perspective
Many eyebrows were raised by the disclosures of Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former NSA contractor who revealed details on top-secret U.S. domestic surveillance programs before fleeing to Hong Kong...
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Why Can’t Corporations Keep Secrets?
Corporate America has become a frontline for foreign espionage. Yet executives, inside counsel, corporate investigators and security professionals seeking to protect their company’s proprietary...
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Investigating Employee Misconduct
In a recent article for Consumer Law Magazine, Beacon CEO Mike Orchard discusses what business owners should do to ensure that holiday cheer does not turn into trouble — as well as important steps to...
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Beacon Client Wins $750K Judgment for Tortious Interference
Beacon Investigative Solutions is pleased to announce that one of our business clients in South Dakota recently obtained a $775,000 summary judgment for tortious interference, in a decision that was...
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Investigation of ‘Google Docs’ Phishing Fraud
Beacon has conducted multiple investigations in the past six months for clients who were victims of phishing attacks that utilized the “Google Docs” platform as a ploy to persuade victims to provide...
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Millennials and New Online Fraud Techniques
In a recent article for Property Casualty 360, Beacon CEO Mike Orchard explains how young “millennial” fraudsters are utilizing new technology to commit fraud and other cyber-crimes — and how they...
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