Malware Installed on Travelers’ Laptops Through Software Updates on Hotel Internet Connections

June 20th, 2013

Recent analysis from the FBI and other government agencies demonstrates that malicious actors are targeting travelers abroad through pop-up windows while they are establishing an Internet connection in their hotel rooms. Recently, there have been instances of travelers’ laptops being infected with malicious software while using hotel Internet connections. In these instances, the traveler was [...]

The Tender Trap

May 3rd, 2013

Sean Banks was arrested this February after allegedly raping a woman he met on the widely publicized dating site ChristianMingle.com. In a similar case, Wade Ridley was sentenced to 70 years in prison for killing a woman he had met on the social website match.com. Numerous cases have become public in which individuals have been [...]

LISTEN, WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?

March 3rd, 2013

The conclave that selected the newest Catholic Pope, Pope Francis, was protected by extensive, sophisticated security measures and devices, not only to assure the safety of the participants, but to protect the integrity of the election process by keeping the deliberations and voting secret until after the world saw the puff of white smoke emitted [...]

KILLER NANNY HAD FINANCIAL “PROBLEMS”

December 9th, 2012

This October in New York City, a fifty-year-old nanny stabbed the two children, ages 6 and nearly 2, in her care, then stabbed herself, trying to commit suicide. On returning home with her third child to their posh apartment in Manhattan‘s West Side, the mother of the dead children faced that horrific scene. Could it [...]

AVOIDING SHOOTING PAINS IN THE WORKPLACE

September 13th, 2012

We are referring to real shooting pains here…bullet wounds…not backaches or migraines. This August we had two scary, local examples of workplace gunplay: on August 24, near the Empire State Building, a recently fired employee shot his former supervisor and then himself.  A week later, in New Jersey, an angry supermarket employee shot two customers [...]

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A DETECTIVE?

August 6th, 2012

From the back cover of the book by Lenny Golino [and Douglas Winslow Cooper], a memoir  to be published in 2012 by Outskirts Press: In The Shield of Gold, private investigator and former New York Police Department homicide detective Lenny Golino informs, amuses, and sometimes saddens the reader with real-life stories from his twenty-one years [...]

CUSTODY MATTERS…A LOT

July 10th, 2012

Divorce splits partners, possessions, and most significantly it separates parents from their children. Often, custody agreements end up in court battles. That is when your ability to support your case becomes crucial. To do so, you may need the services of a private investigator. Lenny Golino of Gold Shield Elite Investigations, LLC, has handled many [...]

GETTING A SECOND OPINION, A SECOND INVESTIGATION

May 9th, 2012

If you have an illness that might be serious or might require major surgery, you are often advised to get a second medical opinion, a second medical investigation and review. In certain civil and criminal cases, a private investigator serves a similar purpose. Recently, a lawyer representing the family of a woman who was killed [...]

WHO IS ASHLEY MADISON?

April 3rd, 2012

WHO IS ASHLEY MADISON? This is not a question you want to have to ask your spouse or lover. The web site ashleymadison.com is for married people who want to cheat on their spouses. The site motto is, “Life is short. Have an affair.” A year ago, an Internet article appeared entitled, “Writer Goes Undercover [...]

A CARE-GIVER CAN BECOME A TAKER OR ABUSER

March 8th, 2012

“Angela Renee Sykes has been sentenced to 30 months probation for stealing from the estate of the late actress Ava Gardner” — so ran the headline six years ago summarizing the conviction of the care-taker for Ava’s elderly sister Myra. This care-taker embraced the “taker” part of “care-taker” all too well. “Mickey Rooney Claims Elder [...]