The retail industry faces countless issues ranging from petty theft to credit card fraud, but no issue has grown more rapidly in recent years than Organized Retail Crime (ORC). The National Retail Federation (NRF) recently reported on its ninth annual Organized Retail Crime survey, finding that 94 percent of Loss Prevention executives say they’ve been victims of ORC […]
Read moreSecurity firm Rapid7 recently performed a study that found 114,000 point of sale terminal servers, mostly from Digi International or Lantronix, were configured to let anyone gain access to their underlying systems. A terminal’s server (also referred to as a network access server) makes any equipment with a serial port accessible through the Internet. […]
Read moreAs I drove out of a parking garage last week I began to dig for the $1 payment I needed to make. After frantically searching for the duration of my wait in line, I meagerly pulled out my debit card and apologized to the lady working. She assured me it happens ALL the time, but […]
Read moreATM fraud and skimming is no longer a crime of the future; in fact, it’s becoming more and more prevalent world-wide. With more than 1.7 million ATMs worldwide and new ones installed around every six minutes, the possibilities for skimming criminals are endless. This rapidly growing form of ATM fraud is one of the fastest-growing […]
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