Verified Security Blog

The Grinch is back! In the latest caper, thieves broke into a storage area for holiday decorations in the city of Macon and stripped all of the copper from the decorations. Here is the link to the article in the […]

Well, now that Halloween is over, it is time for the crooks and criminals to turn their attention to the other upcoming holidays. We have now entered the prime season for retail theft. With stores and display windows filled with […]

It is that time of year again–the time when we fire up our furnaces, space heaters, and other indoor heat sources. Indoor heating systems that burn fuel create carbon monoxide (CO) as a by-product of the fuel combustion that generates […]

Arecont Vision, a leading manufacturer of megapixel video surveillance (CCTV) cameras, has released a new 20 megapixel, 180 degree, day/night, dome camera. This new camera has four 5-megapixel imagers in one dome camera housing and it allows users to get […]

Well, we have another day with another story of copper theft in Georgia. As I have discussed several times, copper prices have almost doubled over the last couple of years, making it an attractive target for thieves. The most recent […]

Have you heard of Art Clokey? He was the creator of Gumby, the beloved green clay television star. He died in 2010 but October 12 would have been his 90th birthday. This is a link to his Wikipedia article: Wikipedia […]

Another day in Atlanta…another story of a smash and grab burglary. These types of burglaries are very hard to stop because the burglars wait until a business is closed (usually a retail business is the target) and then smash the […]

The bad guys are at it again. In a recent post, I talked about the increase in copper theft incidents in metro Atlanta. There is another article today in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the problem in the metro area. This […]

With copper prices at a level approximately thirty percent higher than they were a year ago, thieves are continuing to target this metal for theft. Scrap copper, copper wiring, and air conditioning units have all been stolen in recent months […]