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Allocating Resources: Financial Fraud vs. Terrorism

2009-01-09 06:54:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fraud scheme as victims of the biggest scam in the world continue to emerge The Freakonomics blog discusses this: This might lead you to ask an obvious counter-question: Has the anti-terror enforcement since 9/11 in the U.S. helped fuel the financial meltdown? That is, has the diversion of resources, personnel, and mindshare toward preventing...
 
Tags: resources, york times article, securities, fraudulent stock schemes, freakonomics blog discusses, billion fraud scheme, future terrorist attacks, securities crimes, fewer prosecutions
 
 
 
 
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Employee Fraud Spiralling Out of Control in the UK

2008-09-09 10:08:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...fraud has cost UK companies more than 77 Million Pounds Sterling (approx. $150,000,000.00),just in the first half of this year alone The most disturbing aspect of this figure is the fact that it is up from 10 Million Pounds Sterling (approx. $18,000,000.00)in the same period last year. This represents more than an 8 fold increase in employee...
 
Tags: employee fraud, businesses, businesses beware, million pounds, billion dollars, period, fold increase, fold, fuel price hike
 
 
 
 
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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Fraud Prevention team discovered that three employees of a company that provides call center assistance for Target National Bank used the privileges granted as part of their job to commit fraud. The suspected employees used Target Visa card account information to place fraudulent charges on Target Visa accounts Reference URL The New...
 
Tags: call, target, call center employees, accounts, target visa accounts, call center, call center assistance, employees, target national bank
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud hits Baptist Health in Arkansas

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2008-07-11 00:00:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fraud Evan] Wouldn't life be grand if we could trust our employees? Maybe, I suppose The letters, mailed last week, follow the firing of the woman in early June North Little Rock police say Tamara Hill, 30, of that city worked at Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock in the emergency department Hill, an admissions clerk, was...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, baptist health system, health system, fraud, victims personal information, employee fraud, baptist health, employee
 
 
 
 
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Click Fraud, Botnets and Parked Domains - All Inclusive

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2008-07-28 07:58:08 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...fraud. Hypothetically, the cost to rent the botnet and commit click fraud would be cheaper than sharing revenue on per click basis with "human clickers" who earn money based on how many ads they click given a set of scammer's owned sites, where the customer supports represents a DIY proxy switching application changing their IP on the fly ...
 
Tags: click, click fraud, click percentage, click basis, pay-per-click, click forensics, click fraud activity, invalid, invalid clicks difficult
 
 
 
 
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Card fraud what can one do?

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2008-12-22 14:01:37 by Saar Drimer in Light Blue Touchpaper
...fraud when they pay with their cards at shops or use them in ATMs (for on-line card fraud tips see e-victims.org , for example). My short answer is usually not much, except checking your statements and reporting anomalies to the bank. This post is the longer answer little practical things, some a bit over the top, I admit that cardholders can...
 
Tags: card, card fraud, magstripe, magstripe data invalid, emv card, emv, encoder, magstripe encoder, blank magstripe card
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Tenet Healthcare affects 37,000

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2008-02-18 10:26:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fraudulent information, police said The company mailed letters last week announcing the security breach to anyone who could have been affected, said spokesman Steven Campanini Tenet also informed victims how to set up free fraud alerts at the nation's three major credit bureaus There's an annoyance factor and we apologize for that," Campanini...
 
Tags: tenet, require, require social security, security, tenet healthcare corp, employee fraud, fraud, letters, tenet notification letters
 
 
 
 
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Central Bank of the UAE reports ATM fraud to lenders

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2008-03-03 11:41:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fraudsters who hacked into a bank's ATM machine We have been informed by one of the banks operating in the UAE that a gang of computer professionals has managed to insert an electronic reader into the card reader of one of its ATMs, which enabled them to copy the data of all the cards used in the said ATM during the period 19-25 February...
 
Tags: bank card details, card details, bank, bank card, atm, regular card reader, reader, customers, bank customers
 
 
 
 
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Security Assessments as Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

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2008-07-17 21:34:14 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...fraud, waste, and abuse What makes me say this is the amount of redundancy in some testing that Ive seen without any value added The way to avoid this redundancy is the concept of common/shared controls. The whole idea is that you take whatever security controls you have across the board and put them into one bucket. You test that bucket once...
 
Tags: controls, security controls, assessment, shares controls, waste, fraud, security assessment, bucket, control bucket
 
 
 
 
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Businesses ignore telecoms fraud

2008-07-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x84733f0 in Network World on Security