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Onity Hotel-Room Lock-Hacking Triviality Becomes an Issue In Texas
Last July at the Black Hat conference, security researcher Cody Brocious gave a well-attended and much-discussed presentation in which he responsibly, totally reasonably and helpfully demonstrated the complete fail that is the Onity hotel door lock system. Now, I have skin in this game – I stay in hotels. A lot. So much so that, […]
The City That Became … [How Much] Safer?
November 12, 2012 by Nick Selby
I just picked up a copy of the most racy book available to crime analysts this month, The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation (Advances in Police Theory and Practice) by John A. Eterno and Eli B. Silverman. Eterno was a NYPD officer who rose through the ranks and retired a captain; he and Silverman, […]
HighRoller and CarderProfit: A Tale Of Two S#1tties
June 27, 2012 by Nick Selby
Two significant cybercrime stories are making the rounds: the roll-up of an international sting against carders (see below) and details of a well-coordinated cyber operation targeting corporate bank accounts. There’s plenty of analysis out there on each of these stories so we’re going to give you some overview, some links to resources to get smart […]
Two More Rules for Building Better Police Websites
September 19, 2011 by Nick Selby
I’m putting together the presentation I’m doing next month at the SecTor Conference in Toronto, and all sudden-like, a post comes across the IACA mailing list about building police department websites. We’ve spoken before about this, but since the rash of attacks against law enforcement, I think I need to speak a little louder. First, […]
An Update Roundup from the PLI Guys
August 31, 2011 by Nick Selby
Some random thoughts since we’ve both been slammed at work and with travel. And for me, clean-up at our house in the Northeast after hurricane Irene blew through. My family was actually among the luckier – friends in Massachusetts are still without power, four days later. First, I was personally happy to see the United […]
No, you probably don’t need a data warehouse – unless your initials are “NYPD”
July 11, 2011 by Nick Selby
A journalist working on a piece about some high-end technology [from a vendor whose name I can’t mention, but whose initials are IBM] being touted as saving the day at a large agency [I can’t reveal the agency, but its initials are NYPD] asked some questions about crime mapping, Compstat and crime analysis and I […]
To Hear What You Need, Stop Listening To Everything
May 4, 2011 by Nick Selby
Twenty years ago, the problem with intelligence analysis was that you had to work really hard for every nugget of data and information you got to analyze, and in lieu of hard data, make inferences from things like socks in the dryer and tingles up your spine. Today there is such an embarrassment of data […]
IACA Spring Symposium: Lessons from the World of Intelligence in the Commercial Enterprise
April 27, 2011 by Nick Selby
I’m really excited to be doing a training session today for the International Association of Crime Analysts at its Spring Symposium here in Vancouver, Canada. The purpose of the talk is to present police crime analysts with detailed information about how private enterprises, particularly those in the financial services, energy and manufacturing sectors – view […]
Intel Intelligencer Part II: Asset Forfeiture as Intel Funding Source
April 26, 2011 by Nick Selby
In Part I of this two-part Intel Intelligencer, I talked about how our two–part article and podcast with Patrick Ryder of the Nassau County Police Department’s Asset Forfeiture and Intelligence Unit sparked an interesting online debate. Sadly, the debate took place on another online forum, depriving Police-Led Intelligence of the traffic that it would have […]
Intel Intelligencer: Debating Asset Forfeiture as a Funding Source for Intel
April 25, 2011 by Nick Selby
This week’s Intel Intelligencer points at some documents, works, articles and government guidelines around the topic of asset forfeiture. It is a very long (nearly 3000 word) article, so I’ve broken it into two pieces; this, Part I, is 1500 words long and sets forth the arguments that it may well be a dangerous thing […]
The Week Ahead
April 25, 2011 by Nick Selby
The last week has been something of a whirlwind for Dave and me; Dave’s been slammed on a big investigation which has kept him somewhat to moderately hostile, and I’ve been traveling like a lunatic. Last week I got to London to attend CounterTerror Expo and InfoSec UK, and also to put the finishing touches on […]
Police-Led Intelligence 
November 28, 2012 by Nick Selby
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