All Posts Tagged With: "Internet"
New Arizona Process Server Continuing Education Course Goes Online
PIEducation.com today announced the formal acceptance by the Supreme Court of Arizona of its online continuing education course for Arizona certified process servers.
In order to be eligible to act as a private process server in Arizona, all persons must be certified and comply with the requirements of the Arizona Revised Statutes, Title 11, the Arizona [...]
Unidentified Decedents and Missing Persons National Database Available to the Public
It is always astonishing to me when I read that a staggering 800,000+ people are reported missing on an annual basis and entered in to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC). Additionally, the Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics reports there are nearly 4,400 unidentified human bodies discovered every year nationwide as [...]
5Jan2010 | Stephanie Mitchell | 1 comment | Continued
Internet & Cyber Crime Terms and Definitions
Address Munging: the practice of disguising, or munging, an e-mail address to prevent it being automatically collected and used as a target for people and organizations who send unsolicited bulk e-mail address.
Adware: or advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed [...]
New Online Continuing Education Course for Private Investigators
PIEducation.com, the market leader in continuing education for private investigators, added a new online course to their course catalog called, “An Investigator’s Guide to Professional Forensic Photography” written by veteran crime scene investigators Michael LaForte and Michael Knox of Eagle Crime Scenes, Inc.
Photography skills are an integral part of an investigator’s job. Discover how to [...]
Private Investigator Jobs and Career Website
Looking for a Private Investigator career? Do you have an investigation job that needs to be filled?
Pursuit Magazine is proudly announcing the launch of our new private investigator job website, Our PI job board will provide career seekers the perfect place to find private investigator jobs and agency recruiters with a much needed vehicle [...]
Service of Process through Twitter
In another process serving first, BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy coalition similar to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), has served the owners of Pirate Bay via their Twitter and Facebook accounts alleging the founders are facilitating, on an unprecedented scale, the illegal sharing of copyright protected files, intellectual property and media.
Pirate Bay is the [...]
Microsoft’s Forensics Tool (Cofee) Spills onto Web
Microsoft’s point-and-click “computer forensics for cops” tool has leaked onto the web.
COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) is designed to allow law enforcement officers to collect digital evidence from a suspect’s PC without requiring any particular expertise. Using the technology – which recovers a list of processes running on an active computer at the scene [...]
Service of Process on Law Enforcement Officers Goes Online
Collier County, Florida is joining Lee, Hendry and Glades counties with high-tech subpoena delivery. By the end of the year, Collier County hopes to launch CJIS Notify, the new electronic subpoena system used to serve process on law enforcement officers.
The new system is reportedly very efficient and cutting costs and saving a whole lot [...]
Buried Deep in Data? New Search Options Can Help
It could have happened to any insurance company at any time. Joe, not his real name, claimed he was disabled after a one-car accident. No one else was involved.
Who’s to say he was wrong? Joe had the paperwork. His story sounded real. But that’s when Michele Stuart got involved.
She’s been a private investigator for the [...]
In Relentless Pursuit of… Social Networking for PIs
In Relentless Pursuit of Social Networking…
It’s been a little while since our last Editor’s Update so we wanted to check in and let you know what we’ve been up to and let you in on some of our recent projects in the past couple of weeks.
If you have not discovered the power of social networking [...]
PIEducation.com is Approved for New Continuing Education Requirement for PIs in New Mexico
Effective September 24, 2008, the New Mexico Private Investigations Advisory Board now requires all licensed PIs in NM to have completed 4 hours of continuing education prior to renewing their private investigator license every year.
PIEducation.com, a subsidiary of CompassPoint Investigations, has received approval from the New Mexico Private Investigations Advisory Board to begin providing CEUs [...]
Writing Your Way to Success as a Private Investigator
For the last decade I have been carefully applying a multi-pronged approach to building my own private investigation practice- which is not really all that different from working on any other type of service provider or consulting business. I have had incredible success following this simple strategy, which I massaged into in an easy to [...]
27Mar2009 | Scott Harrell | 0 comments | ContinuedFinding People Through Public Records on the Internet
The term “public record” has always been VERY misleading. Even though a record is “public” and available for public scrutiny in the strictest sense, in reality it may not be readily available. The availability of numerous public records via the Internet has addressed some of the accessibility issues and, in turn, has been a tremendous [...]
27Mar2009 | Scott Harrell | 0 comments | ContinuedTracers Information Specialists (TracersInfo.com) Raises Rates
I received the following notice today from Tracers Info president regarding rate hikes on their database and information broker services. Unfortunately, they are raising their “membership fee” 50%, which will certainly be a deal breaker with some of their current clients and will not be a good deal for lower volume private investigation agencies [...]
2Mar2009 | Scott Harrell | 1 comment | Continued
