By Michael Nowlan, CEO, Marketwire

Hundreds of thousands of news releases are distributed by wire services every year and the incidences of security violation or fraudulent releases are very rare. Unfortunately, breaches do occur and that is why we all have extensive processes in place to ensure a level of comfort and security for our clients. (more…)

If you’ve been following the news, you’ve heard that private security company G4S would not be able to provide enough trained staff in time. Despite that breach, chief executive Nick Buckles has said that G4S will be keeping the £57m ($90m CDN) fee.

London’s security issue hasn’t been helped by the report of lost buses , one carrying Americans and one carrying Australians. US hurdler Kerron Clement said on Twitter that his bus took four hours to go from Heathrow to the athletes’ village. (more…)