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Chinese hackers targeting background check files
May 08, 2015 - Hackers for China and other U.S. adversaries are going after files that provide information on powerful people, including those contained in background investigation databases. Recent cyberattacks at companies like USIS and KeyPoint, as well as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), point to hackers’ desire to gather information on specific individuals. Targeting U.S. health insurance companies can provide the same kind of data, including details on family members, experts said. Background check provider USIS lost its contracts with OPM after a cyberattack exposed the records of thousands of federal workers. In that attack, intruders deployed malicious software that took screen shots whe...
Bruce Berg's Comments on NAPBS Conference
May 05, 2015 - The conference officially kicked off on Sunday night with an opening ceremony followed by the exhibit floor open to all for hors d’oeuvres an...
NFL Expands Background Checks for Draft
May 05, 2015 - The National Football League (NFL) conducted background checks on all top college players in advance of the 2015 NFL Draft taking place April 30th...
State background-check system flawed and unreliable
April 29, 2015 - From cops whose safety is at stake to day-care centers trying to avoid hiring ex-felons, Ohio’s flawed criminal background-check system doesn...
Koch Industries drops criminal-history question from job applications
April 27, 2015 - Koch Industries, one of the nation's largest private companies, has removed questions about prior criminal convictions from its job application...
The Case Against Hair Testing
April 24, 2015 - An effort to approve hair samples for drug testing in commercial truck drivers is drawing some criticism. The Drug Free Commercial Truck Driver Act...
Background checks in child placement needed, tribes say
April 20, 2015 - Washington tribes and the country’s largest group representing Native Americans are asking for state and federal help in getting background c...
Criminal background checks create dilemma for employers
April 16, 2015 - Employers are struggling to deal with vague U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines on how they should conduct criminal background...
Apple's refusal to hire felons to construct its headquarters points to a deeper problem
April 15, 2015 - Policies like Apple’s have sparked a national movement to take criminal records out of the hiring process. Apple has long been...
Could a Background Check Cost You a Job Offer?
April 14, 2015 - “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner once wrote. Some job seekers learn that lesson the hard way, when...
Apple Bans Construction Workers with Criminal Records from Building New Campus
April 09, 2015 - Several construction workers hired to help build a new campus in Cupertino, California for tech giant Apple were let go from their jobs in January...
Jobseekers with criminal records find past is ever-present
April 06, 2015 - Shari Thomas went to prison more than 25 years ago for killing the man who she said had abused her as a child. She used her time there to remake he...
Background checks: What employers can find out about you
April 02, 2015 - Liars, thieves, bad-news-bear execs, drug addicts, you name it — employers really don't want to hire trouble. To cover the...
Oregon Democrats Introduce Universal Background Check Bill
March 31, 2015 - Legislation has been introduced in Oregon that would require background checks for private firearm sales. Sponsored by Senate Judici...
Should you carry out a background check on your new partner?
March 30, 2015 - A successful relationship is built on trust, but with online dating now accounting for around one in every five new relationships, are we all becom...
Feds Release Swarm Of Convicted Criminal Illegals In US
March 27, 2015 - The Department of Homeland Security has released close to 166,000 convicted criminal illegal aliens in to the United States as of April 2014. &...
International Background Checks Webinar Scheduled for March 31
March 25, 2015 - Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), and Donald C. Dowling, Jr., Partner, International Employment Law, K &a...
Background checks law impacts many
March 23, 2015 - Due to a new state law intended to protect children from sexual abuse, a response to the Jerry Sandusky case at Penn State University, any employee...
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