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Update: St. Louis - H&M LP Officer kidnapped &
raped customers
Raped Three Female Shoplifters at His Home
ST. CHARLES - A man who worked as a loss prevention officer
for several area shopping centers and malls used his position to kidnap and,
at least once, rape customers, prosecutors said.
The St. Charles County prosecuting attorney's office issued on Thursday two
charges of kidnapping and one charge of rape against Shaun A. Ivy, 36, of
the 600 block of Nancy Drive in St. Charles.
Ivy worked as a loss prevention officer for H&M, an apparel store with
locations at Chesterfield Mall, Taubman Prestige Outlet, the Saint Louis
Galleria and West County Mall. He was arrested after a joint investigation
by the St. Charles, Chesterfield and Des Peres police departments.
Des Peres Police Capt. Sean Quinn said a young woman came into the police
substation at the West County Mall on Saturday to say she was worried about
her friend. They had been at Chesterfield Mall earlier, when they were
detained for suspicion of shoplifting. The loss prevention officer let her
go but kept her friend in custody.
According to a probable cause statement filed in St. Charles County, Ivy
detained a woman at the Chesterfield Mall on April 15 and coerced her into
getting into his vehicle using a threat of incarceration if she didn't
comply. He then drove her to his home in St. Charles. On the way there, the
statement alleges, Ivy told the woman that he'd done her a favor and "now she
needs to do him one."
According to a second cause statement, also filed in St. Charles County, Ivy
was working at the Chesterfield Mall store on March 2 when he detained a
young woman and coerced her into getting into his vehicle with the threat of
incarceration and police action if she did not comply. He then took her to
his home, ordered her to get undressed and raped her.
At least three victims have been identified and police are asking for any
other victims to contact their local police department.
Quinn said there were no known cases of people's being kidnapped from the
West County Mall, but police were hoping any victims would come
forward.
Police said they were asking any other potential victims to contact their
local police departments. Ivy is facing 30 years in prison and H&M is
cooperating with the investigation.
stltoday.com
Elmwood Park, IL:
Walgreens Manager in Custody after Shooting at Shoplifting suspect
A drug store manager was taken into custody after firing shots at a
suspected shoplifter Saturday, police said. It happened about 1 a.m. at a
Walgreens in Elmwood Park. Police said a person entered the store and took
an item off the shelf and left without paying. The manager opened fire as
the suspect jumped into a getaway vehicle, police said. Investigators said
about two shots were fired from a handgun and no injuries were reported.
abc7chicago.com
Sunday Walmart's
Restorative Justice Program Makes Top Yahoo Home Page News
"Wal-Mart Has a Unique Way to Cut Down on
Shoplifting"
Appearing in the eight spot at 4 pm the Walmart story,
which the Gainesville Sun originally published a few weeks ago and we
reported on, the Motley Fool wrote an article about it March 28th that
eventually made Yahoo's home page which is news in and of itself. As it's
not often we get such press and exposure, other then story's about racial
profiling and violent crime we never really see any LP/AP story's about
programs on Yahoo's home page.
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT)
has taken the law into its own hands. No, the company has not started its
own jail, and any employee who wears a cape and fights crime must still do
so on their own time. Instead, the retail chain has taken a new approach to
fighting shoplifting that requires less involvement from the police. The
retailer has been using a "restorative justice" program in 1,500 of its
stores, according to
The Gainesville Sun. That's a program where people deemed
low-risk, first-time offenders are given the choice of paying to take an
anti-shoplifting course rather than facing arrest and prosecution.
The effort is in its early days, but the results have been good so far. The
company has seen a 35% reduction in calls to law enforcement
nationwide since restorative justice programs were first
implemented.
fool.com
May 1st Muslim Guards
March on Amazon Corporate Office
Muslim SIS Security Guards Not Allowed to Pray
Five Times a Day
Amazon may have
issued a "declaration of support" in January for a lawsuit
against President Trump's order to put a temporary halt to immigration from
seven Muslim-majority countries, but that hasn't stopped outraged Muslims
from planning a May 1 demonstration at the front door of the company's
headquarters in Seattle.
The Service Employees International Union and three Muslim guards
who work for Security Industry Specialists, the security contractor Amazon
uses to guard its facility, accuse SIS, and by implication Amazon, of
refusing to allow the guards space to pray five times daily, even though
members of other religions are granted the privilege of using prayer rooms.
Essag Hassan, a former SIS guard at Amazon, said he was let go because of
his request to be allowed to pray on his work break.
"I was fired and not given a reason why," Hassan said. "I'm speaking out for all
Muslim security workers and for workers of any religion. When you ask for a
space to pray on your work break, that request should be treated with respect."
The SEIU told PJM "a strongly worded letter" from the "Seattle faith
community" would be delivered to Amazon during the rally planned outside the
company's headquarters.
"Unlike other companies in locations with large Muslim populations,
Amazon has not supported Muslim service workers requesting space to pray
during their law-mandated work breaks," the SEIU email to PJM said.
"Despite granting the high-earning tech workers conference rooms to pray in,
there appears to be a double standard for the contracted security officers
who protect the tech giant," the SEIU email concluded.
The May 1 rally won't be the first time SEIU and former SIS guards who are
Muslim have knocked at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' front door.
The South Seattle Emerald
reported in February "hundreds of devout Muslims, clergy, labor
unionists" and even some Amazon workers took part in a prayer rally to
demonstrate against SIS policy regarding prayer rooms.
"There's been issues regarding religious prayers, [with some not being]
given a space to practice," Ismahan Ismail, a security specialist at Amazon,
told the South Seattle Emerald. "When I did speak up, I was
actually retaliated against. I had someone step on my prayer items."
pjmedia.com
dailymail.co.uk
Guns Stolen in
Burglaries Up 73% - Dealer Burglaries Up 50% Nationwide
Barricades and security cameras: With more gun
store thefts, owners arm themselves
Gun store burglaries nationwide are on the rise. Statistics show gun stores
increasingly are becoming the targets of thieves.
Last year, 558 burglaries of federally licensed gun dealers
were reported nationwide - up nearly 50 percent from five years ago,
according to the latest data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives.
The number of guns stolen in gun store burglaries nationwide rose 73
percent - to 7,488 in 2016.
"The bad guys know they can take these guns and there's a constant demand on
the black market for them," The market for that is much larger versus
stealing electronics or wheels off cars or whatever somebody's stealing.
Convicted felons who cannot legally get a gun are willing to pay
well above the market value.
Robberies - where criminals use force or threaten to use force - are much
less common than burglaries, but they are still up over the last five years
nationally. Last year, four of the 33 gun store robberies nationwide
were in Missouri, putting it second in the country behind Texas with 10.
In 2015, there was only one gun store robbery in Missouri. Kansas also had
one that year.
Even though the number of robberies is less than the number of burglaries,
the increase shows that some criminals are becoming more brazen. The
southeast they've been hit harder and harder by that type of thing.
kansascity.com
Multi-branded grocery
retailer Ahold USA streamlines currency management
The multi-branded company is the result of a 2016 merger of Ahold and
Delhaize America. The U.S. entity operates stores under several banners
within many corporate divisions throughout the mid-Atlantic region and along
the Eastern seaboard, including Stop & Shop, Giant, Hannaford, Food Lion,
and Peapod, an e-commerce grocery offering home delivery.
Since it was built from a series of mergers and acquisitions, though,
several different legacy point-of-sale systems were in use at various
locations. That's where new software tools, developed to reduce costs and
improve operational efficiencies, come in.
VeriBalance, the company's software platform, offers a host of advantages
that are enhancing the way retailers manage their cash processes.
The platform integrates retail systems and devices that touch cash at the
store level to give corporate offices a real-time view of stores, what the
company calls "Store Virtualization."
"Store Virtualization is a unique differentiator that brings all those
sources together, aggregates the data at the store level and presents it to
the corporate stakeholders who want to see that real-time, store-level
information," Wysong says.
The platform's features include check conversion and cash reconciliation,
which yields collective figures for the full store and individual points of
sale. The program can also compute and track bank deposits. stores.org
Leaked safety document
may hint at future Apple technology such as AR glasses
Third Party Safety Contractor Leaks Trade
Secrets
An report from an Apple Environment Health and Safety contractor -said to
have accidentally leaked to hundreds of Apple staff -may point to rumored
augmented reality glasses, or some other new eye-related technology. The
company could, however, be testing other vision-related technologies, such
as iris scanning and/or 3D facial recognition rumored for
the "iPhone 8." Editor's Note: The only reason for posting is the
obvious third party contractor in safety leaking documents.
appleinsider.com
Michigan Bill Could
Authorize Theft Fees on Commercial Trucks
Pays For Cargo Theft Investigations
Michigan senators approved legislation that could allow the Automobile Theft
Prevention Authority to assess small fees on commercial vehicles, not just
private passenger vehicles.
The nonpartisan Senate Fiscal Agency says the bill (SBill 168) could
generate more revenue for the authority, but it's uncertain whether it would
result in a "significant" boost in $1 assessments. The revenue would be used
to provide funding to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors for
the investigation of cargo theft and other issues affecting
commercial motor vehicles. claimsjournal.com
Retail contraction has
rocked Manhattan. Are the outer boroughs next?
Since October, almost 90,000 general merchandise store jobs have
disappeared. The inexorable move to online shopping has reached a
tipping point.
In New York, the fallout is hitting first in Manhattan but will soon spread
to the other boroughs with enormous implications for the future of the city
and its workers. While the overall retail job numbers show only a tiny
decline last year, Manhattan has lost almost 9,700 positions since
2014.
Citywide, the sellers one would expect to be hardest hit, including
electronic and sporting goods retailers, are indeed losing ground fast. But
weakness is showing up in many areas that had been growing. Consider grocery
stores, where the expansion of chains like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's
added 8,000 jobs just between 2012 and 2015, before falling back in 2016.
The data is as of the third quarter of last year and should worsen as more
recent quarters become available.
Because Manhattan is where the decline has taken hold first, experienced and
higher-paid workers are being hurt the most. The average retail wage is
about $50,000 in Manhattan but only about $30,000 elsewhere in the city.
When retail turns down in the other boroughs, the job prospects for
thousands of New Yorkers with limited education will be diminished.
Economists and many politicians have disparaged the boom in retail because
the industry pays low wages. The issue will soon change to what can be done
to help those people find new work. The answer isn't clear.
crainsnewyork.com
Sears Just Reminded
Everyone It's On Life Support and May Never Get Off
Same Stores Sales Drop 11.9% - Lost $190M to
$230M - CFO Departs After 6 months
If Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD)
had one foot in the grave coming into the year, then it has just dipped the
second foot into a six foot hole.
The dying retailer said in a new filing on Friday that same-store sales
since the start of the year crashed 11.9% between its two banners. Excluding
one-time gains related to the sale of the Craftsman tool business and
certain real estate, Sears lost between $190 million to $230 million. That
is worse than a year ago when it lost $181 million.
Sears also
announced the departure of CFO Jason Hollar, who had only been on the
job for about six months. The company hinted strongly it will move to
shutter more stores beyond the round of 150 closures it just completed.
"Accordingly, we will increase our structural cost savings target by $250
million on an annualized basis and accelerate our efforts to maximize value
from our real estate portfolio."
Sears had previously outlined $1 billion in cost savings this year through
layoffs, stores and other restructuring efforts.
In the wake of Sears
disclosing in March it may be unable to stay in business.
thestreet.com
Eddie Lambert Sears CEO &
48% Share Holder "Is Cashing in as Sears is Cashing Out"
Mother's Day Spending
to Reach Record-High $23.6 Billion
Panera Bread replacing
cashiers with robots & hiring 10K in-cafe & delivery drivers
Ralph Lauren will lay
off 100+ at Triad DC facilities in NC
Aldi investing $1.3B
upgrading it's 1,300 U.S. stores - to hit 2,000 in '17
Welcome To The
Hard-Discount Arena, Lidl-But Avoid 'Poking The Bear'
Quarterly Same Store
Sales Results
Steve Madden Q1 comp's down 6%, net sales up 11.2% (includes wholesale)
Last week's #1 article --
Sears is quietly closing
more stores than it said it would
Sears Holdings announced in January that it would
shut down 150 stores this year, with most locations closing by
April. Now the company is closing even more stores. Most of the stores on
the new list will start liquidation sales in April and close in July. Ten
new ones appeared on this list.
businessinsider.com
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Charlotte's Iverify names Fanella new CEO
 CHARLOTTE,
N.C. -
Iverify
recently appointed James Fanella as its new CEO. Fanella brings more than 30
years of expertise in the high technology industry with a particular focus on
driving innovation to profitably grow companies.
Iverify is the leading provider of comprehensive life-safety and property
protection solutions for commercial clients throughout North America. It
delivers products and services that improve each customer's profitability and
increases security across their entire risk spectrum. Key solutions include
interactive video, intrusion alarm, fire, closed circuit television and access
control. Iverify's core competencies are system design, installation, service
and remote monitoring for multisite commercial properties, consume retail,
high-end residential, property management and automotive.
"Iverify is known in the industry for providing its clients with the optimal
level of security coupled with unparalleled service and support," said Fanella.
"I look forward to driving additional innovation and partnerships that will
further strengthen our market leadership."
Fanella's area of expertise includes professional services consulting, sales
optimization, process improvements and executive management. He has a strong
knowledge of how to optimize the use of innovation that includes new advisory
services, application modernization and infrastructure.
He was previously the vice president and general manager of workload and cloud
practice at Hewlett-Packard Co., where he was responsible for driving revenues
of more than $2 billion. Prior to Hewlett-Packard Co., Fanella's positions
included senior vice president of Yahoo!, CEO of MEEZA, CEO of StrataScale,
managing partner of global financial services for Unisys and president of AppNet.
"We're excited that Jim is joining Iverify to lead our technology-enhanced
growth," said Eli Boufis, Iverify board chairman. "We appreciate the leadership
of Steve Campeau and wish him our best as he seeks other opportunities in the
industry."
 Iverify
was founded in 2002 and is the leading provider of comprehensive life-safety and
property protection solutions for commercial clients throughout North America.
It specializes in the design, installation and service of fully integrated video
monitoring systems for national account customers, as well as other video
services, intrusion and access control. Headquartered in Charlotte, North
Carolina, with locations in Chanhassen, Minnesota and Markham, Ontario, Iverify
integrates technology, security experience, professionalism and efficiency to
deliver the solutions customers need: greater security and greater opportunities
for profitability, all at a lower cost. For more information, visit
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Tom Ridge Says Corporate
Boards Still Unprepared for Challenge of Cybersecurity
"It's top down. This is the CEO saying 'we are changing now.' " Mr. Ridge says.
Tom Ridge, the former Homeland Security secretary and Pennsylvania governor,
says the majority of corporate boards and CEOs are unprepared for the challenges
posed by rising cyber risk. In fact, 59% of directors report that their
boards find it challenging to oversee cyber risk, and only 19% report
that their boards possess a high level of knowledge about cybersecurity, he
said, citing a study released in March by the
National Association of Corporate Directors.
There's no single or foolproof approach to hardening a company against
cyberattack, which Mr. Ridge views a permanent risk. "It's people, process and
technology, and it's culture, and the culture is driven from the top," Mr. Ridge
said. "Remember Total Quality Management? It was embedded. It was everywhere in
the organization. I think now in this interdependent world, where everything is
connected, we need to start thinking about total resiliency management."
wsj.com
Q&A: Assessing Cybersecurity Risks in the Supply Chain - Part 2
What can companies do to mitigate these risks?
Mr. Tiao: There are no silver bullets about risk management. It's not about risk
elimination, you've just got to manage it, survey your entire network and
business to identify where the sensitive data is, what security is wrapped
around that data and what security should be wrapped around it. The best
security should be around the crown jewels; you should limit access to that data
and monitor the heck out of what is happening with it. The nature of security
defenses has evolved. You've got to be monitoring your network for malicious
activity.
A growing field is information-sharing, working with agencies and other private
companies to get the best information on threats and vulnerabilities. There are
many things you can do technically and at the business and policy levels to
mitigate and make sure you are ready for a breach. It's a good idea to plan a
breach-response exercise that puts the right people in place. That's where
preparedness helps.
How can an organization put in place an effective cybersecurity program?
Mr. Tiao: A lot of the challenge is internal. You may do an assessment to
identify areas that may require attention but companies in general don't have
enough resources to meet every single demand. So the team has to prioritize the
process through which it can persuade the company to invest in new systems and
additional personnel to address the changing nature of risk and to close those
gaps. The information security executives have to prioritize these requests and
encourage the company to build a governance team to support these requests and
understand these requests, to make sure they've got the right governance
structure and the right culture to address cybersecurity.
How does a company put that in place if it doesn't have it?
Mr. Tiao: A lot of the job of the information security executive is to manage
up, to persuade the C-suite to create a team of individuals...that includes all
of the key stakeholders that would weigh in on cybersecurity. You need to build
teams at different levels-it's not just a technical problem, you have to get the
powers that be to create that structure so everyone involved is working together
to get the right information. Then it takes time to build a structure, so you've
got to be good politically within the company, to be a persuasive advocate for
the program. You won't get resources and support if you don't have the right
governance team in place.
wsj.com
Appearing This Week: The
Five Profiles on the Insider Threat
Profiling The Insider Threat - Breaking Down a
Complex Security Term - Part One
From a disgruntled employee looking to destroy IP, or an opportunist looking to
make money by selling data, all the way to a security-naïve worker that might
unwittingly let criminals into your network without knowing it, there are dozens
of factors that can influence the kind of insider threat you may well face.
Understanding the threat is one of the most difficult parts of managing and
mitigating the risk, so I've identified five insider threat profiles
to show the complexity of the problem.
Disgruntled Dave
Dave was a bright employee who simply felt he wasn't listened to enough. As a
lead programmer, he identified a key vulnerability in your company's software,
but the company didn't think it would become a serious problem and pushed
forward with the software's release.
Frustration turned to anger, and after trying time and time again to get the
company's attention, Dave took it upon himself to destroy the software just to
prove a point. This kind of situation is more common that usually thought:
broken promises, the undervaluing of an employee's opinion, and not heeding
sensible advice can often result in those on the frontline of development to
lash out against the company.
In order to detect situations like Dave's, the first line of defense is often
looking out for the human signs of an unhappy employee. If this fails, then
companies need to turn to technology to look for behavior on the network that is
out of the ordinary.
Is Dave accessing files that usually he wouldn't? Is he logging on to the
network at strange hours of the day, or managing large file transactions all at
once? It's also important to note that your data needs to be monitored at all
time: while at rest, while it's moving, and data in use for policy violations.
Depending on the level of violation from Dave, consequences may vary from a
verbal warning and closer monitoring, through to dismissal or legal action.
Having an insider threat policy in place will help to classify the threat,
assess the damage and administer the necessary sanctions. Most importantly
though, you want to be able to detect disgruntled employees before they can
cause such harm.
Part Two Tomorrow: Sandra the spy
info-securitymagazine.com
Machine Learning in
Security: 4 Factors to Consider
There's a good chance you've considered the implications of machine learning for
your security team. As data increases, the skill gap widens, and hackers'
strategies get more complex, businesses struggle to detect and address
cyberattacks.
Machine learning enables behavioral analytics and cognitive security to detonate
attachments before they arrive in someone's inbox, or correlate types of
activity across a network of thousands of users.
The ability to stop attacks before they occur is powerful, but how should
security leaders start the process of making their systems smarter with machine
learning?
Start With The Basics - perfecting your security posture first.
Machine Learning Can Save Time - "The ability to verify and
validate accuracy is the biggest value point associated with the cognitive
engineer we have"
Machine Learning May Change Staffing & Skills Needs - Security
is "visibility plus action," says Valcamp. Today's security operators are
level-one professionals who primarily focus on visibility and pass information
to senior engineers to handle problems they find.
The introduction of machine learning to monitor activity could change the role
of junior security engineers. Instead of spending their time watching for
breaches, they'll be able to take action. The cognitive piece is taking care of
the first level," he explains.
Machine Learning Won't Automatically Make You More Intelligent -
Garbage in, garbage out," says Valcamp. "You're really only as smart as the data
presented into the cognitive engineer." Whatever the smart system is processing,
it's only valuable if the data is valuable. Businesses behind machine learning
platforms need to make sure the information being entered is quality. If not, it
increases the risk of fake alerts. Validating sources, and measuring yourselves
along the way.
darkreading.com
Nigerian Convicted for
$500,000 Internet Scams
Business Email Compromise & Company Email Accounts
Director of Information
Security for Sephora in San Francisco, CA
Director, Cyber Security
Services for KPMG Risk Consulting practice, San Francisco, CA
Shopify announces
self-designed PoS card reader to grab US customers from Square
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eBay
Global Asset Protection was invited and presented at the California High
Tech and Digital Evidence Symposium, which took place from April 18-21 in
San Diego, California. Senior Investigator Christian Hardman presented on
the eBay GAP team, eBay advanced search, Case Drivers, and records
production. Other notable attendees included KiK, Apple, Verizon, and
Google.
