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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
 
You have read it before on TheBulletProofBlog - the tougher times get, the more likelihood that people will resort to criminal measures We reported it regarding the theft of copper from Churches, Hospitals, Schools - even from new homes still under construction. We brought to your attention the fact that thieves have become bolder, evidenced...
 
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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/22/08 Organization Target Corporation Contractor/Consultant/Branch Target Financial Services Target National Bank Unknown contract company Victims Target Visa customers Number Affected Unknown Target estimates that there were three (3) affected New Hampshire residents. It is assumed that the...
 
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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 7/2/08 Organization Baptist Health Baptist Health is the largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in Arkansas Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Patients Number Affected 1,800 Types of Data name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, and reason for coming to Baptist...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, baptist health system, health system, fraud, victims personal information, employee fraud, baptist health, employee
 
 
 
 
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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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/13/08 Organization Tenet Healthcare Corporation Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Patients Tenet Healthcare Corp. owns 54 hospitals in a dozen states, including Hilton Head Regional Medical Center and Coastal Carolina Medical Center Number Affected 37,000 Types of Data Social Security...
 
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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/27/08 Organization Central Bank of the UAE Contractor/Consultant/Branch Unknown lender Victims ATM customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Bank card and account details, PIN numbers, and possible other related information Breach Description The Central Bank of the UAE has issued a...
 
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
Im going to put on my Government Security Heretic Hat for awhile here, bear me out. By my estimate, half of the security assessments received by the Government have some kind of 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...
 
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
 
Businesses are ignoring the problem of telecoms fraud, even though the potential losses could be huge. According to telecoms supplier, Damovo, businesses underestimate how much they could be affected by such fraud, although its recent survey found that one organization lost 50,000 through telecoms fraud
 
Tags: fraud, telecoms fraud, businesses, recent survey, telecoms supplier, organization lost, potential losses, damovo, huge
 
 
 
 
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Should Banks Believe Their Customers Who Claim Online Fraud?

2008-08-25 20:54:41 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
Should banks believe their customers when they claim someone hacked their accounts and committed online fraud? Apparently in one recent case, WaMu first reversed the charges when one customer claimed a hacker charged up debt in her itunes account but later, the bank took back the credit, saying the customer was just plain lying. What great...
 
Tags: wamu, itunes account, convince wamu, account, online fraud, customers, customer service, debit card information, information
 
 
 
 
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Protect yourselves from identity fraud

2008-09-29 13:32:18 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
Soon youll be seeing the infomercials on late nite TV. Its becoming very profitable, easy set up, even tutoring clipped from news.cnet.com Behind the scenes of online fraud Fraudsters arent just targeting bank customers. They are also luring victims off social networks, where they harvest sensitive private information, and online gaming...
 
Tags: online, online fraud tools, online attacks, online fraud, tools, data, fraud software, dream botbuilder costs, card data
 
 
 
 
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Fraud Due to a Credit Card Breach

2008-03-21 06:39:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This sort of story is nothing new: Hannaford said credit and debit card numbers were stolen during the card authorization process and about 4.2 million unique account numbers were exposed But it's rare that we see statistics about the actual risk of fraud: The company is aware of about 1,800 cases of fraud reported so far relating to the breach...
 
Tags: breach, data breach occurs, fraud, risk, million unique account, actual risk, card authorization process, retailer, rule