FRAUD PREVENTION Articles
How IT Helped Catch the Jewelry Thief
The Zale Corp. jewelry store chain is having much better luck catching burglars in real time, thanks to a little help from the IT side of the house. Loss Prevention Manager Dennis Thomas explains how the company built its high-tech command center from scratch.
Election Day: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Voter turnout could be the highest in a century.
Princeton Report Rips N.J. E-voting Machines as Easily Hackable
Vendor challenges research, says its machines are safe and reliable.
MSNBC: Here comes 'foreclosure rescue' fraud
Millions at risk
Dog Calls: Company Trains K-9s to Sniff Out Contraband Cell Phones
A California company has developed a niche training dogs to detect illicit cell phones in correctional facilities.(So what does a cell phone smell like, you ask?)
Data Breaches Spark Hard Drive Shredding Boom
This is a great time to be in the hard-drive shredding business, as companies scramble to destroy data before the bad guys have a chance to steal it. A look inside the belly of the beast (includes video).
Separation of Duties and IT Security
Muddied responsibilities create unwanted risk. Kevin Coleman says auditors may start labeling poorly defined IT duties as a material deficiency.
Monitoring the Enemy Within: Reflections on a New Internal Data Theft Study
Who steals data, and what do they do with it? Cooper Bachman of ID Analytics scrutinizes research from a dozen data thefts resulting in 1,300 attempted instances of data misuse.
Numbers | CFEs Rank Most Important Fraud-Prevention Controls
From the ACFE's 2008 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse
Numbers | Botnets Account for 25% of Click Fraud
Click fraud rates hold steady, but the way it's perpetrated is evolving, according to the ClickFraudNetwork
