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June's Moving Ups

33 New Senior LP's - 20 Appointments - 13 Promotions

84 Lumber named Jay Saludis Director Information Security
Anixter promoted John Goolsby to Sr. Director, Global Security and Asset Protection
APG Cash Drawer named Craig Kaliebe Business Development Manager
Bed Bath & Beyond promoted Andrea Rubalcaba to Senior LP & Safety Manager
Boot Barn named Perry Resnick named Director, Loss Prevention
CIS Security Solutions, Inc. promoted Donna Carey to Vice President - Marketing & Inside Sales
CKE Restaurants named Christopher Perry Corporate Asset Protection Manager
CVS Health promoted Josh Connors to Sr. Director, Asset Analytics & Insights
DFASS Group named Jose Montenegro Corporate Asset Protection Manager
Facebook named Benjamin Coleman Global Security Executive Services Manager
Genuine Parts Company promoted Donovan McGee to IT Director
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc. named Paul Stone Vice President of Security
Hallmark Cards named Matt Dokman Information Security Director
Hannaford Supermarkets promoted John Carr to Director of Asset Protection
MedMen named Chris Rodriguez Director of Loss Prevention
Mobilelink USA named Steven Mesrey Director of Asset Protection
Old Navy named Jacob Myers Director of Loss Prevention, West Territory
Old Navy named Joseph Ortega LP Director - International
Pacific Sunwear named Chris Ota Vice President Loss Prevention
Penske Truck Leasing named Vincent Carranza Facilities Project Manager - Physical Security
Publix Super Markets, Inc. promoted John Hawthorne to Director Loss Prevention & Safety
Richline Group named Eric W. Smith Director of Security
Ross Stores promoted Omar Lara to Manager of Corporate Security & Fire/Life Safety
Sears named Christopher Broadhead Director, Business Process Optimization
Stein Mart promoted Andrew Burchett to Director, Field and Supply Chain Asset Protection
Stein Mart promoted Shawn Abbott to Director Asset Protection Technology
Steve Madden named Michael Monaghan Corporate Loss Prevention Manager
The Home Depot promoted Chris Carrillo to Senior Corporate Investigator - Northern Division
The Home Depot promoted Denver Culpepper to Sr. Business Analyst, Asset Protection
The Home Depot named Scott Glenn, J.D., LPC Vice President of Asset Protection
The PGA Tour Superstore named Tom Eberhardt Director of Loss Prevention and Safety
The Vitamin Shoppe named David Snyder VP, IT Security & Compliance
Wireless Vision promoted Nicole Schmitt to Senior Manager Asset Protection

Bob Casar promoted to Territory Director of Loss Prevention for HS Brands International
Bob was previously the Regional Director of Loss Prevention HS Brands International and has been with the team since 2017. He's held other loss prevention and asset protection positions during his over 21 years in the industry, including AP Manager at Sears, Roebuck & Co., Regional LP Manager for Luxottica, Corporate LP Manager for Carter's, Executive Team Leader - Asset Protection for Target and Regional LP Manager for Ascena Retail Group, Inc. Bob earned his Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science from Bowling Green State University. Congratulations Bob!

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How Starbucks Combats Account Takeover
Account Takeovers (ATOs) and credential stuffing represent a huge threat to the retail industry. In fact, they pose major problems for any vertical in which customers tend to reuse passwords for multiple accounts. Password reuse makes compromised credentials even more valuable to cyber criminals.

Starbucks recognized this threat more than four years ago, before it was well understood by the industry at large. As Starbucks Director of InfoSec Mike Hughes said in a recent Shape Security webcast, "We started to put eyes on the issue in 2013, looking at it holistically as a problem for the industry and, as a member of the industry, something we would be facing and dealing with." securityboulevard.com

Adidas Breach Hits U.S. Retail Site
Adidas is warning customers of its US retail website that their personal details may have been compromised after a suspected data breach.

Reports suggest millions of customers could be affected by the data security incident, which the footwear giant said it first became aware of on June 26.

A brief statement on the incident claimed the firm is alerting "certain consumers" who purchased from the adidas.com/US site.

"Adidas immediately began taking steps to determine the scope of the issue and to alert relevant consumers," it said of the incident. "Adidas is working with leading data security firms and law enforcement authorities to investigate the issue. According to the preliminary investigation, the limited data includes contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords. Adidas has no reason to believe that any credit card or fitness information of those consumers was impacted." infosecurity-magazine.com

UK luxury retailer Fortnum & Mason says 23,000 Affected by Data Hack
Luxury retailer Fortnum & Mason has become the latest big brand to be involved in a significant data breach after the company admitted the details of around 23,000 competition and survey participants had been compromised.

According to a spokesperson at Fortnum & Mason "At 17.26pm on Friday 29 June, Typeform, a company that provides services that we have used in the past to collect survey responses and voting preferences, notified us that they had suffered a data breach and unfortunately some of our data had been compromised." infosecurity-magazine.com

A massive cache of law enforcement personnel data has leaked
Many police departments 'unable to respond in an active shooter situation'
A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials, ZDNet has learned.

The cache of data contained identifiable information on local and state police officers, and federal agents, who sought out or underwent active shooter response training in the past few years. The backend database powers the website of Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training -- known as ALERRT -- at Texas State University. zdnet.com

New California Privacy Law Could Accelerate Retail Blockchain Adoption
California just passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, a law that will bring something very close to GDPR requirements to the biggest economy in the United States (and 5th in the world), and the home to many of the tech companies that hold consumer data and/or provide CRM software that helps retailers and other businesses hold and manage consumer data.

So how does that have anything to do with the price of Bitcoin? Well, it doesn't, though many people still seem to equate Bitcoin the currency with blockchain the underlying technology that makes Bitcoin possible. But even for blockchain, a first glance at the requirements of the law and the way blockchain work suggests that the two should have nothing to do with each other. Blockchain never forgets, and one of the key aspects of both the California law and GDPR is that companies must honor consumer requests to be forgotten. forbes.com

Why Sharing Intelligence Makes Everyone Safer
Security teams must expand strategies to go beyond simply identifying details tied to a specific threat to include context and information about attack methodologies.

Cybersecurity is sometimes viewed as being inherently reactive. But given the security issues we face today, security professionals must push beyond merely blocking an attack before a network breach. Cybersecurity teams must also have the ability to disrupt an attack from achieving its goal. This might sound similar to blocking an attack, but there's more to it.

This foresight can be acquired through knowledge of the kill chain, which refers to models that map the stages of attacks from initial system probing and network penetration to the final exfiltration of valuable data. Some people in our industry describe this process as "cyber threat intelligence."

The Strategy Behind Cyber Threat Intelligence
Such a strategy goes beyond signatures or details tied to a specific threat. It could also include context and information about attack methodologies, tools utilized to obscure an infiltration, methods that hide an attack within network traffic, and tactics that evade detection.

It is also important to understand the different kinds of data under threat, the malware in circulation, and, more importantly, how an attack communicates with its controller. These elements of foresight enable the disruption of an attack at any of the points mentioned above.

But threat intelligence is also about being qualitative, at least to the degree that it can be leveraged to respond to an attack, whether that means a forensic analysis for full recovery or the attribution and prosecution of the people responsible for the attack. darkreading.com

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5 Predictions About the Fraud-Prevention Market Landscape for the Next 5 Years
Domestic orders will carry more risk
Over the next five years, the most significant CNP fraud growth in the US will come from domestic orders-US-based fraudsters buying with domestic credit cards, listing US shipping addresses, and exploiting domestic victims. That's because fraudsters are learning that utilizing data from other countries raises red flags for fraud, but they stand a better chance of slipping through among the higher volume of good domestic orders.

Payments and fraud-prevention will see consolidation
I believe the early 2020s will be marked by consolidation as investors seek payoffs for their initial stakes, founders seek rewards for their hard work, and major payments and information players seek the kind of data-driven solutions these startups are developing.

Machine learning will move beyond the buzzwords
Moving beyond the AI and algorithm buzzwords, providers will have to prove themselves with back-tests, proofs of concept, and pilots. Fraud solution marketing will require more than slide decks and presentations, as clients come to expect evidence of experience in the market using variables based on relevant data.

Experience will matter (and cost) more than ever
As the need for experienced fraud managers increases to keep pace with the upswing in CNP fraud, expect recruiting, hiring, and retaining these experts to get more competitive, more expensive, and more tilted in favor of larger companies with big budgets.

The US market will feel more effects of the EMV liability shift
Over the next 5 years, the US market will continue to face rising fraud attempts and prevention costs. The biggest challenges will be stopping fraudulent orders and account creations without alienating good customers who want their orders processed quickly and without hassles. multichannelmerchant.com

China mulls fighting e-commerce's fakes problem
BEIJING: A draft e-commerce law in China has the potential to increase pressure on smaller online retail companies to crack down on the sale of fake and counterfeit products on their platforms.

The law, the latest draft of which made its way through China's parliament last week, would make e-commerce platforms as responsible for the sale of counterfeit goods as the individual merchants, who are currently liable when caught, according to the South China Morning Post.

For the largest platform operators, the legislation is unlikely to disrupt the operations of the country's largest e-commerce firms, who have been developing capabilities to identify and remove fakes from the platform.

In part, the legislation fits with a broader trend toward reducing the copycat perception of Chinese manufacturing, and can be read in line with the current Made in China 2025 plan to put innovation and high-technology at the core of the Chinese economy.

Meanwhile, the smaller platforms are the most likely to be hurt by the law, Paul Haswell, a partner at the law firm Pinsent Masons who advises tech firms. The legislation, he told the SCMP, "is almost certainly going to be passed." warc.com

Supply Chain Solutions Market to Witness Rising Demand Due to Expansion of E-Commerce Sector

Ocala, FL: Update: Home Depot, CVS and Publix credited with assist in $500,000 ORC Ring bust
There is shoplifting, and then there is what Gilbert Libron and Lacher Lindsay are accused of doing. Authorities say the boyfriend-girlfriend duo spend months stealing roughly $500,000 worth of goods from retail stores throughout central Florida. Ocala police and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement are still investigating, and additional charges are possible.

Ocala police Detectives Sean Young and Mike Bowman followed Libron, 48, of Ocala, and Lindsey, 25, of Gainesville, to Volusia, Seminole, Orange and Lake counties for about a month, watching them stealing items and later selling them to people at two Orange County homes, according to a police report. Police became involved when officials from Home Depot, CVS and Publix approached them in early December 2017 to report that, several months prior, two people had stolen thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from their businesses.

Young said when he was assigned to the case, he received an approximately 2-foot-tall binder with documents about the thefts. Young determined that, statewide, the affected businesses had lost an estimated $100,000 worth of merchandise. Young approached FDLE with his findings. That agency obtained a search warrant for the two homes.

Not long after that, Libron and Lindsey were arrested. In March, Libron was sentenced to two years in prison. Lindsay served two months at the Marion County Jail and was transferred to Pasco County to resolve a charge of violation of probation. All four people arrested face statewide prosecution as the investigation continues. gainesville.com

Grand Junction, CO: Man accused in card scam may be linked to ORC ring operating in West; targeting Sam's Club for estimated $400,000
Managers of the Grand Junction Sam's Club believe a 29-year-old man accused of bilking their store out of more than $2,000 as part of a gift card grift could be linked to hundreds of thousands of thefts across the region. Yoe C. Hernandez-Martinez was arrested June 23 outside the store at 1040 Independent Ave. after police were called for a fraud report. The store's assistant manager told police he had seen Hernandez-Martinez and two other men in and out of the store making fraudulent transactions for a month.

Hernandez-Martinez was identified after a 59-year-old woman reported seeing three fraudulent transactions on her credit card for a total of $2,115.72. The manager pulled surveillance video of the times of the transactions on June 13 and saw a man matching Hernandez-Martinez's description make more than 14 transactions in a short amount of time for a total of more than $13,000. Three of the transactions used the woman's credit card information. The manager told police that he believes Hernandez-Martinez and the two men are linked to a number of other thefts at Sam's Clubs across Colorado and the western U.S., the report said. "(The manager) explained they will steal gift cards from their stores and take pictures of the barcode on the back of the gift cards," the report said. "They will return to the same store the gift cards were stolen from and use the self-checkout and scan the barcode from their phone and make the purchase with stolen credit card information." The manager said the Sam's Club region has lost nearly $400,000 in the last month to the scheme. gjsentinel.com

Arlington, VA: Over $80,000 Theft Reported At Fashion Centre at Pentagon City
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise that was stolen from various businesses at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City has been returned, police say. The Arlington County Police Department's Property Crimes Units returned a portion of more than $80,000 worth of merchandise stolen from the mall stemming from an investigation that began in 2015 and has resulted in a suspect pleading guilty to multiple counts of grand larceny and grand larceny with intent to sell, according to a tweet by ACPD Friday. "Organized retail crime has a major financial impact on businesses and consumers," police added in a follow-up tweet. "ACPD is committed to investigating these crimes and holding those responsible accountable for their actions." patch.com



Tallahassee, FL: Suspects tried to steal $500 Walgreen's gift card
The Tallahassee Police Department is investigating an attempted theft which occurred late last month at the Walgreens on Mahan Drive. Authorities say the suspects attempted to steal a $500 gift card from the store on June 27. The suspects are wanted in other gift card thefts at the Walgreens on North Monroe Street and from a store in Quincy. wctv.tv


Wilkes-Barre, PA: Shoplifters caught at Kohl's; $1,500 of merchandise recovered
Haley Golomb, 23, and Symphony Sanders, 24, are alleged to have shoplifted a combined $1,526 worth of goods on Tuesday. Golomb and Sanders were charged with felony counts of retail theft and arraigned before District Judge Matthew Christopher. timesleader.com


Dallas, TX: Thieves armed with pickaxe rob jewelry from Costco
Three men armed with a handgun and a pickaxe robbed jewelry from a Costco store in north Dallas on Sunday afternoon. The robbery happened at the Costco on Churchhill Way. No one was injured, police said. The suspects smashed jewelry counters in the store, then fled the store in a vehicle. It was unknown how much jewelry was stolen. A fourth suspect was involved in the robbery but did not go inside the store. cbslocal.com





Lodi, CA: Police Looking For Three Suspects In Home Depot Theft
Lodi police are looking for information on three suspects who stole from Home Depot. The three suspects were caught on security camera walking out of the store with merchandise. cbslocal.com



Orland Park, IL: Two men arrest in Fencing Ring Operation; charged with Wire Fraud, Possession of Stolen Property and Continuing Financial Crime Enterprise

Foley, AL: Foley Police are seeking help identifying suspects in Nike merchandise theft

Watertown, NY: Man charged with stealing more than $500 from thrift shop
 

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