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The retail industry loses $119 billion worldwide to shoplifting, employee theft and administrative errors
posted on 20/10/2011
According to the Global Retail Theft Barometer, the global shrink rate is 6.6% higher than the previous year, and represents the highest percentage recorded by the survey since it began in 2007. Shoplifting, employee or supplier fraud, organized retail crime and administrative errors cost the retail industry $119 billion in 2011 or 1.45% of sales. The study underwritten by an independent grant from Checkpoint Systems, Inc. monitored the cost ... [more]
The return of Stuxnet
posted on 20/10/2011
According to McAfee Labs, the Stuxnet team is still active–as recent evidence has revealed. McAfee Labs received a kit from an independent team of researchers that is closely related to the original Stuxnet worm, but with a different goal: to be used for espionage and targeted attacks against sites such as Certificate Authorities (CAs). How do we know it was the Stuxnet team? To start with, the attacks are targeting CAs in regions occupie... [more]
Samsung SNV-5010 vandal resistant network dome camera approved for use by European railway industry
posted on 20/10/2011
Tests carried out by two separate testing houses, which included the ability to withstand extreme vibrations, has resulted in certificates being issued which verify that the Samsung SNV-5010 vandal resistant network dome camera is robustly able to operate effectively within the demanding conditions of railway trains and stations. TUV SUD of Germany carried out testing of the SNV-5010 to ensure it was suitable for use at railway stations by com... [more]
Management is naive when it comes to understanding how much privileged access their IT departments actually have
posted on 20/10/2011
According to a Lieberman Software survey, 42 percent of IT staff can get unauthorised access to their organisation’s most sensitive information – including the CEO’s private documents. The failing is blamed on management’s naivety when it comes to understanding just how much privileged access their IT departments actually have. 39 percent of the technology professionals interviewed in this study confirmed that that their senior management doe... [more]
Criminal gangs are reverse-engineering cash card machines' software
posted on 19/10/2011
According to a report by the Automated Teller Machine Industry Association (ATMIA), sophisticated criminals are using ‘reverse-engineering’ techniques to gain access to individual bank accounts and to banking software systems, giving rise to a threat of widespread theft and fraud. ATMIA sees evidence that criminals are targeting ATM software as a new frontier of fraud. Software reverse-engineering (RE) is highlighted as one of the most dangero... [more]
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