I’ve just read about another brilliant idea, an idea to improve our security and make life even more difficult for crooks. Intruders go to great lengths to hide their face. …
Lots of interesting stories in the news recently about hidden CCTV systems, both in the home and out in public. Sheffield City Council's Licensing Committee are considering making cameras compulsory…
The recently published 2011 Crime Survey for England and Wales asked 50,000 people for their direct experiences of crime. Interestingly, the Crime Survey showed that people think crime is getting…
Tecom Investments, a subsidiary of Dubai Holding, centralized its security for a total of 24 buildings in three technology parks with artec technologies AG's video surveillance system MULTIEYE-HYBRID®. This has…
Despite the economic turbulence, the global CCTV and video surveillance equipment market continued to grow throughout the downturn. IMS Research remains confident that demand for CCTV video surveillance equipment will…
Further to our post on Home Security and Crime Rates in the USA, here's a small section enlarged which shows the times when a property is most vulnerable and also…
Infographic courtesy of Fixr.com Find out about our burglar alarms for protecting your home from burglary.
Another great infographic showing the effectiveness of Home Security in the USA. Whilst the figures may not totally agree with what is happening in the UK, it does give a…
A recent study on Home Security by Populus, which surveyed two thousand adults, has revealed that the average UK home inadvertently provides a shop window for attracting thieves, with an…
Gareth Kloet, head of home insurance at Confused.com, the price comparison site, has warned that insurance companies may start increasing premiums for Facebook and Twitter users after a burglary ring in Nashua, New Hampshire in the US targeted people who used the geolocation features of Facebook, which alerted the criminals that their homes were empty.
Whilst Facebook have claimed that only one of the homes involved had any link, for those who check in using the Places facility, it certainly does pose something of a risk and Mr Kloet suggests that it would not be surprising to see ‘rises of up to 10% for social media users in the future.’
Many of us are guilty of giving potential felons an awful lot of personal information about our whereabouts in our status updates and checkins, coupled with images of the various rooms in our homes and their contents from our existing photo albums. (more…)
