Thank you to all those who joined us at the London Market Cyber Symposium last week. We hope everyone found the contributions by our three speakers...

The arrest of one of Nigeria’s most notorious kidnap kingpins, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, has been hailed as a potential turning point in the battle...

There has been a notable increase in scams involving hoax kidnappings in recent years. Virtual kidnapping involves attempts to extort a ransom from...

Extortion simply defined is the unlawful extraction of property, including monies, goods and/or favours and privileges by way of various coercive a...

This week, the World Intellectual Property Organisation launched their inaugural study on the value of “Intangible Capital” in manufactured goods....

Thanks to everyone who came and joined us at this year’s Halloween bash – it was a great night.

So far this year, seventy-three seafarers of various nationalities have been kidnapped from seventeen vessels operating in the Gulf of Guinea and c...

red24 rates Haiti as a high-risk destination and operating environment due to various persistent security concerns. These include high threats of p...

California is suffering from some of its most destructive wildfires in recent history, and those fires are having a direct effect on event calendars in the region. The North Bay region, north of San Francisco, has seen some of the worst fires, wit...

The police is usually called in to help with cases of robbery, extortion and kidnap.. not often do you find them being the perpetrators of such activities. However, this seems to have occurred in the Philippine city of Angeles City.

A recent food safety scandal in the UK involved employees at one of the largest suppliers of supermarket chicken in the country, 2 Sisters Food Group, allegedly altering slaughter dates in order to extend the products’ shelf life.

Port vs. Whisky and Geographical Indications You may have heard of the rules governing the use of certain geographical names in products. For examp...

When businesses enter into contractual negotiations, there are dozens of priorities in mind, the main one usually concerning getting the deal done!...

KIDNAP FOR RANSOM RESPONSE: THE IMPORTANCE OF RESILIENCE The noun resilience stems from the Latin resiliens, “to rebound or recoil”. The word is us...

We’ve previously posted a piece on the threat of kidnapping and violence against aid workers around the world, specifically Yemen due to the ongoing and increasingly vicious conflict in the region. It is an undeniable and unfortunate fact that aid...

Brexit conjures up different reactions from different parties, but regardless of which camp you may have found yourself in last summer, there is no denying that the landscape for UK food and beverage manufacturers is somewhat in limbo for the midt...

California has had its share of extreme weather occurrences this year, and the high temperatures combined with ongoing wildfires and urban smog have taken their toll on an annual wine festival scheduled to take place in Livermore Valley, near San...

The news that half a million (500,000) pacemakers by health technology firm Abbott have been recalled over fears they may be tampered with remotely illustrates an increasingly common problem – as technology becomes ‘smarter’ it also becomes more v...