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Investigation & Surveillance

Home office website hack – Warnings of further attacks.

The Home Office website was subject to hacking at the weekend.  The attack restricted access to the Home Office site for several hours from 21:00 on Saturday. It has been reported that it was a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack.  The UK …
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VIP Close Protection

Masked raiders hold couple captive before raiding their £1m property and stealing an Aston Martin, Range Rover, Mercedes and £50k of jewelery.

Richard Barnfather and his partner Deborah Leadbetter live in 5-bed barn conversion in Pattingham, Shropshire. The couple had been getting ready for bed just after 10pm on March 9th before the ordeal began. Mr Barnfather had heard a noise outside …
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Maritime Security

Shotguns seized from tanker crew docked at Milford Haven.

Three shotguns along with ammunition were seized from a Panamanian-registered ship. The ship had docked into Milford Haven port, West Wales on Thursday 8th March. The weapons were uncovered in a simple routine search by Border Force. Border Force is …
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VIP Close Protection

Blackburn Rovers Manager Steve Kean employs bodyguard for Personal Protection following threats from fans.

Steve Kean has hired a personal bodyguard to protect both himself and his family from recent threats that he has been receiving from disgruntled Blackburn Rovers fans. Kean has taken advice to have security with him at all times in …
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Investigation & Surveillance, Local News, Maritime Security, Security Consultancy, VIP Close Protection

Ironside Associates Opens New London Office in time for the 2012 Olympics.

Ironside Associates are pleased to announce the opening of our new office based in London located at 288 Bishopsgate close to Liverpool Street Station. Our new office enables us to support our clients in the London area more efficiently.  It …
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