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| NRF 2009 Organized Retail Crime Survey |
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 NRF’s Organized Retail Crime survey is distributed each spring to senior loss prevention executives nationwide. This year’s survey features responses from 115 different retail companies, including department/large box, discount, drug, grocery, restaurant and specialty retailers. The 2009 Organized Retail Crime Survey is NRF's fifth annual survey.
Download the Full Report at the National Retail Federation site.
Thanks to Jason Liszkiewicz for the link.
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| InfraGard Member Receives Patent |
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 John C. Checco, CISSP, CSSLP, a member of Infragard's NY Metro Chapter, recently received US Patent No 7509686 for his security algorithm in keystroke dynamics. Mr. Checco is owner of Checco Services Inc., an information security consulting firm, as well as founder of bioChec keystroke biometric solutions.
A fully‐functional demonstration of the technology is available at www.bioChec.com and the SDK is freely available for in‐house non‐commercial development.
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| F.B.I. Looks Into a Threat to Reveal Patient Data |
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 pfroehlich writes "November 7, 2008
F.B.I. Looks Into a Threat to Reveal Patient Data
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating an extortion letter threatening to expose millions of patient records stolen from Express Scripts, a medical benefits management company.
The company said Thursday that it had been investigating the threat since early October, when it received a letter that contained personal information on about 75 of its members including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and, in some cases, prescription information.
The company said that it had immediately notified the F.B.I. and that it had retained outside experts in data security and computer forensics to aid in the company’s internal investigation.
“We have been conducting a thorough investigation since we received this threat and we are taking it very seriously,” said George Paz, chairman and chief executive, in a statement. “We are cooperating with the F.B.I. and are committed to doing what we can to protect our members’ personal information and to track down the person or persons responsible for this criminal act.”
The company also announced that it had created a Web site for members to obtain information about the incident and learn how to protect themselves from identity theft. The Web site is www.esisupports.com.
Express Scripts, based in St. Louis, is one of the largest pharmacy benefits management companies in the United States. It handles prescription benefits for approximately 50 million people through clients like health insurers, employers and union-sponsored medical plans.
A spokesman for the company said that Express Scripts was still trying to ascertain the exact nature of the theft.
“All we know about the nature of the data taken is that the letter enabled us to tell where in our system it was taken from,” said the spokesman, Steve Littlejohn. “We’re not ruling anything out.”
He said that because of the investigation, the company was not willing to give details about the nature of the threat letter, such as whether it was sent as an e-mail message or through the United States postal system. He also said that the extortion threat was for money, but would not disclose the amount.
Mr. Littlejohn said the company was still not certain how much data had actually been stolen. He also said the company had not ruled out the possibility of an insider theft.
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
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| Studying Osama bin Laden's audio tapes - Homeland Security Daily Wire reports: |
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9/11 + 7: Taking stock
Published 11 September 2008
University of California, Davis researcher is studying more than 1,500 audiotapes seized in Afghanistan in 2001; the tapes are recording of conversations from the late 1960s through 2000 among bin Laden and more than 200 of his associates.
More than 1,500 audiocassette tapes taken in 2001 from Osama bin Laden's former residential compound in Qandahar, Afghanistan, are yielding new insights into the radical Islamic militant leader's intellectual development in the years leading up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Flagg Miller, an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of California, Davis, and the first academic researcher to study the tapes, will present his preliminary observations in a lecture at the Center of Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin on 18 September. The first research paper stemming from Miller's study of the tapes will appear in the October issue of the journal Language & Communication.
"Bin Laden did not start out at the top of this movement. He had to earn his way there, build his credibility," said Miller, a noted scholar of Arabic. "These cassettes help to tell us how he did that." The collection offers "unprecedented insight into the debates going on among bin Laden's allies and critics in the five years leading up to the September 11th attacks," Miller said. "They also show his evolution from a relatively unpolished Muslim reformer, orator and jihad recruiter to his current persona, in which he attempts to position himself as an important intellectual and political voice on international affairs."
The audiocassettes, along with a number of videotapes, were first acquired by a CNN producer and Afghani translator in the weeks following the Taliban's evacuation from Qandahar on 7 December 2001. After the FBI declined stewardship of the tapes, CNN turned the collection over to the Williams College Afghan Media Project, headed by anthropologist David Edwards. Edwards contacted Miller, a linguist and cultural anthropologist who studies the roles of language and poetry in contemporary Muslim reform in the Middle East. The audiocassettes are now at Yale University, where they are being cleaned, digitized and described; the process will take several years to complete.
"In trying to understand bin Laden's own intellectual formation, analysts to date have had to rely exclusively on what he has revealed in statements made to world audiences, or else on what has been reported about him by his former teachers and associates, family members, journalists and various political representatives," said Miller, who is indexing the tapes and has listened to excerpts from many of them. "No equivalent 'library' of his has yet come to light."
The tapes date from the late 1960s through 2000 and feature more than 200 speakers from more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, Indian subcontinent and Africa. The speakers, identified on cassette labels, include prominent scholars as well as some of al-Qaida's most important strategic thinkers and operational leaders. The recordings include sermons, political speeches, lectures, formal interviews, exchanges between students and teachers, telephone conversations, radio broadcasts, recordings of live battles and Islamic anthems, as well as trivia contests and studio-recorded audio dramas. Twenty of the audiocassettes contain recordings of bin Laden; twleve of these include material previously unpublished in any language, according to Miller.
Among his early observations, Miller has found that bin Laden took many years to identify a single consistent message or political platform. For example, in bin Laden's early recordings he sometimes called non-Muslims throughout the world "dogs," while on other occasions he advised his listeners to engage civilly with Western embassies and consulates by writing letters and organizing public demonstrations to protest Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
Bin Laden, however, consistently identified the United States, especially through its support of Israel, as his number-one enemy, even before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the massive augmentation of U.S. forces on the Arabian Peninsula, Miller said.
The audiocassettes shed light on how the fight against the Soviets in the 1980s shaped bin Laden. The recordings also confirm him as a man who regards his homeland, Saudi Arabia, as corrupt, believes that Islam has been perverted by ruling Arab leaders across the Middle East, views Muslims as victims of global persecution and sees himself as a reformer who is setting Islam on a better path.
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| Police investigate BT's secret internet monitoring trials |
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| jconcannon writes "City of London police examine dossier complied by BT customers unhappy with the Phorm Webwise trials run by BT Dinah Greek, Computeract!ve 11 Sep
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Police are examining a dossier concerning the secret trials of the Phorm Webwise internet monitoring software carried out by BT in 2006 and 2007.
The move by the City of London Police came after the force was handed the information by IT specialist Alex Hanff, following a protest by BT customers outside the telecom giant’s annual general meeting in July.
Mr Hanff and privacy experts believe that BT’s trials were illegal and that Webwise breaches privacy laws including the Data Protection Act and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
Dr Richard Clayton, a privacy expert at Cambridge University, who has analysed the software, has written that he is “not happy at all”, and believes that it “performs illegal interception” as defined by the RIPA.
The software, which tracks people’s surfing habits with the stated aim of delivering more targeted adverts, has caused a storm of controversy. As well as BT, two other key UK internet service providers, Talktalk and Virgin Media, have said they have plans to use the software.
Mr Hanff and privacy experts are also deeply concerned about what may eventually happen to any data that is intercepted.
“We are concerned about the potential for further use of individuals’ data in light of the US patent application and Phorm’s DPA registration. The DPA registration makes clear reference to holding financial and personal data and being allowed to ‘export’ this,” Mr Hanff said.
Phorm said it was certain that Webwise didn't breach any UK laws and it is not clear yet if BT faces any further action by the police concerning the trials it did not inform customers about.
A representative for the police said: "City of London Police has not launched a criminal investigation in connection with this matter. We are establishing if any criminal offence has been committed.”
BT said it had no comment to make on the matter of the police investigation.
The Information Commissioner's Office has said in its view, from the information available at this point, Webwise can be used in a way that will not breach UK laws. However it also said it would continue to monitor the situation.
The EU has also stepped into the row and asked the UK Government to clarify if the software breached the laws. However the UK has not responded to the EU yet."
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