Identity Resolution Daily Links 2007-11-9
[Post from Infoglide Software] Searching Dirty Data for Dirty Money
“Few would find a problem with large contributions coming to political candidates and committees from a single household. But over $200,000 in contributions since 2004 from a single middle-class household might raise some eyebrows, especially when the head of that household is reportedly a mail carrier.”
YouTube: eFencing Stolen Items On Ebay
CNBC news segment
Austin Business Journal: UT creates global security chair
“The chair, called the Jon Brumley Chair in Global Affairs, will fund programs that study efforts ‘to reconcile technological advances with security needs.’”
“As retailers across the country gear up for increased holiday sales, they are also bracing for higher returns, some of which will be fraudulent. According to the National Retail Federation’s second annual Return Fraud Survey, loss prevention executives anticipate that nearly nine percent (8.93%) of holiday returns will be fraudulent, up slightly from 8.67 percent last year.”
“My name is Joe LaRocca. With over 18 years of experience as a loss prevention professional inside retail companies, I speak from experience about the significant and sweeping change I myself and colleagues of mine in loss prevention (“LP”) have encountered and had to adapt to in order to stay ahead of the bad guys. What used to be a focus of our time and resources on physical crime – property based theft, embezzlement, etc., — have quickly shifted and accelerated into the online world, presenting me and my colleagues with an entirely new, more sophisticated, harder to find, next to impossible to identify or reach culprit – the cyber-criminal.”
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