The Loss Prevention Foundation Announces
Newest Board Member

The Loss Prevention Foundation (LPF) announced the selection of its newest board member to assist in governing and providing strategic direction for the Foundation. Elected to the board of directors was:

● Melissa Mitchell, CFI Director of Asset Protection & Retail Supply Chain, Lifeway Christian Stores

Each new board member must demonstrate their support for industry-specific loss prevention certification and are personally committed to obtaining the LPC designation. They must have a passion for improving our professional perception as an industry and feel professional certification is a critical step in achieving that goal.

"I am excited to announce Melissa as our newest board member," stated Terry Sullivan, LPC, President of the LPF. "With over 20 years of leadership, operations, loss prevention and asset protection experience, I know that she will be a great asset to the LPF."

The Executive Committee also accepted the retirement of the following board members:

  ● Dennis Wamsley, LPC Director, Loss Prevention & Safety Publix Super Markets
  ● Claude Verville, LPC Principle, Shrink & Safety Solutions, LLC

Elected to the LPF Board Member Emeritus Status were:

  ● Gene Smith, LPC, former LPF President
  ● Claude Verville, LPC, founding board member 

"The LPF grants Emeritus status to board members, upon retirement, who have served The Loss Prevention Foundation exceptionally over the years," explained Terry Sullivan, LPC, President of the LPF. "Both Gene and Claude are well deserved of this title. Gene for his leadership as the former President of the LPF and Claude for being a founding board member who was instrumental in the LPFs success and growth through his years of service to the LPF."

For a complete list of board members visit: LPF Board of Directors

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Bringing Vendor Risk Management to the Midmarket
RiskRecon CEO Kelly White Weighs In on New Initiative
With today's enterprises being digital ecosystems made up of many layers of vendors, a vulnerability in one becomes potentially a vulnerability in all. A new initiative by the Cyber Readiness Institute aims to address this by promoting to smaller enterprises the cybersecurity best practices used by Fortune 500 companies.

Microsoft, Mastercard, Exxon Mobil and A.P. Moller-Maersk are working with the not-for-profit CRI to help the companies they work with better secure their systems. This includes disseminating guidance recommending the use of passwords that take the form of phrases, administering security updates and providing advice on how to create a policy to ensure that outside USB devices have been approved by the IT team.

As a former CISO with significant insight into third-party risk, Kelly White, founder and CEO of RiskRecon, offers commentary on the initiative in an interview with Information Security Media Group. databreachtoday.com

SML Produced 1.4 Billion RFID Tags for Retailers in 2017
The company's says its growth in RFID technology for the retail market has exceeded the industry-wide 30 percent annual rise and that this indicates its focus on agility, using a large network of service bureaus, is paying off.

Currently there are about 35 billion non-RFID-enabled hangtags sold annually for the retail market in Europe and North America, and these are in use in about 200,000 stores, Frew says. About five percent of those stores have RFID systems installed today.

Industrywide, the RFID deployments underway represent about 10 percent of all retail products that could eventually be tagged. Frew estimates that 85 percent of goods may be tagged with RFID-enabled labels in the next decade.  rfidjournal.com

Update: Hackers attack Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com
Macy's Inc.'s e-commerce site suffered a data security breach between April 26-June 12 that allowed criminals access to credit and debit card information, names and birthdays of "a small number" of Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com customers.

"We have investigated the matter thoroughly, addressed the cause and, as a precaution, have implemented additional security measures," a Macy's spokeswoman tells Internet Retailer. "Macy's Inc. will provide consumer protection services at no cost to those customers."

Macy's has contacted the "potentially impacted customers," the spokeswoman says.

The login credentials that the criminals used to steal the customer information were not obtained from Macys.com. Macy's could not give further details. digitalcommerce360.com

Data Breaches at Timehop, Macy's Highlight Need for Multi-Factor Authentication
Two new data breaches revealed this week - one at Timehop and the other at Macy's - have once again focused attention on the continuing failure by many enterprises to implement strong authentication for controlling access to critical accounts.

Timehop, a service that helps users of Facebook and other social media platforms share nostalgic moments from old posts, on Sunday said someone using an access credential to its cloud account had illegally accessed names and email addresses belonging to some 21 million users. Phone numbers belonging to about 22%, or 4.7 million of them, were also compromised in the network intrusion the company said. Timehop blamed the breach on its failure to use strong authentication to protect the cloud administrator account that was beached.

Meanwhile, the intrusion at Macy's appears to have resulted from a similar authentication weakness. In an emailed statement, the company described the incident as impacting a "small number" of customers who shopped online at macys.com and bloomingdales.com. Macy's said it had implemented additional security measures and contacted all impacted customers but offered no other details about the incident.

The two breaches are similar to many in recent years involving the use of legitimate credentials to access and steal enterprise data. Often, the threat actors behind the attacks have first stolen the credentials or obtained them via social engineering, and then used them to access the target network. darkreading.com

CISOs map out their cybersecurity plan for 2018
First, he wants to look at how his team makes decisions. "There are always more opportunities to make more impact and add more controls than there are the resources and time to do so," he said. "So how do we create a decision-making framework so we get [our priorities in order]? And we're not doing things because it's a shiny object, but instead because it [has] real business impact?"

Second is organizational change management. The corporate security team needs to be confident that staff throughout the organization, and its subsidiaries, adapt practices and processes to maximize the value of the implemented security protocols and technologies.

Next, he wants to ensure his team's cybersecurity plan is aligned with the top business risks, so that the cybersecurity program "isn't a security program but a risk-management program."

"We absolutely have to understand what objectives we're trying to achieve and who our key stakeholders are," Khawaja said. "It's not that we just simply secure the place, but we do it in a way that's excellent. We have to do it at 100%, and we've got to be at 100% every single time."

The National Association of Corporate Directors' 2017-2018 Public Company Governance Survey found that cybersecurity threats ranked among the top five trends expected to have the greatest effect on business in the upcoming year. techtarget.com

From the Board of Directors
Spend More: A survey of 452 board members of large companies by the Economist Intelligence Unit and advisory firm Willis Towers Watson found their organizations on average spend about 1.7% of revenue on cyber resilience-and 96% said that isn't enough.

Cyber on Board:  A survey of around 1,130 executives by Deloitte found 63% said they expect more requests from their boards in the coming year about cybersecurity program effectiveness. wsj.com

Stay Safe While Shopping Online

Before placing an order at an online store, make sure it uses secure technology. First, verify that the web address begins with https. Also, check to see if a tiny locked padlock symbol appears on the page. If you don't see the lock and the "https," don't shop on that site. In the next 6-12 months browsers will start blocking all unsecure pages, which will hopefully further reduce risks of shopping online.

Alibaba Invests in Smartrac RFID IoT Platform to Enhance Brand Protection
Smartrac has developed a comprehensive suite of RFID-based solutions that utilize the company's Internet of Things platform, Smart Cosmos. Smartrac's IoT solutions enable brand product manufacturers to securely create and embed a unique digital identity into each individual product at the point of manufacture, at scale. This product identity can only be issued by the brand and can't be faked, copied, stolen or lost. businesswire.com

The Importance of Cybersecurity when Dealing with Customers Online
With the rise of cybersecurity technologies, online hacks have become more sophisticated. They have become extremely intelligent, being able to infect your system and spread through it at an astonishing rate, without you even noticing it.

So, the question is- how to strengthen your ecommerce site's security?

● Choose an ecommerce platform that has multi-layered security.
● Invest in SSL certificates to facilitate a secure connection.
● Do regular PCI scans and updates to prevent new vulnerabilities to viruses and malware.
● Leverage an Address Verification System to compare your customer's billing address to the one a credit card issuer has.
● Require your customers to choose stronger passwords with capitalization and at least one special character.
● Make sure your hosting provider is PCI-compliant, meaning that they have strict rules that guarantee the ultimate safety to your customers. customerthink.com

Canadian e‑retailers' sales continue to climb, but there is volatility
Canadian retailers' online sales grew 13.4% year over year from January to April, according to estimates from Statistics Canada, Canada's national statistics agency. Those online sales totaled just more than C$5 billion ($3.8 billion) during the period.

Online sales by Canadian merchants accounted for 2.82% of total retail sales in Canada during the four-month period, up from 2.56% in the comparable period in 2017.

While online sales grew 13.4% overall from January to April, the online growth of Canadian merchants appears to be losing some steam. Looked at by the month, year-over-year sales growth in January and February was 16.6% and 17.0%, respectively. It dropped to 12.0% in March and 8.8% in April. Total retail sales by Canadian merchants over the same period grew 3.0%. Canadian e-commerce growth figures in 2017 regularly exceeded 20%, and total retail sales growth was also higher. digitalcommerce360.com

Prime Day sales poised to surge 40%

Uber Hires Former Top Justice Department Lawyer for Compliance Post

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Update: Fresno, CA: Video release of $27,000 Apple Store Grab & Run
Surveillance video captured four men who needed mere seconds to steal 26 items totaling $27,000 Saturday morning at the store inside the Fashion Fair Mall. The thieves ripped out the tethered electronics from display tables throughout the store as customers and Apple Store employees looked on. rt.com



Update: Salt Lake City, UT: Pawn shops bought items with store security devices still attached
Undercover investigators say not only did several pawn shops under investigation buy items still in their original store packaging; but in some cases, the items were purchased with the store security devices still on them, according to court documents. In June, investigators from the Utah Attorney General's Office served search warrants on seven pawn shops along the Wasatch Front following numerous complaints that some were acting as fencing operations, or knowingly purchasing stolen goods from people.

Investigators seized an "overwhelming" amount of property that day, according to the Utah Attorney General's Office, ranging from power tools to kitchen appliances to sporting goods. Over the weekend, several of those warrants were unsealed and additional details of the operation revealed. One man sold 393 items to pawn stores in 16 months, another 392, and a third person 327 items, the warrants state. deseretnews.com

Update: Thousand Oaks, CA: 4 Arrested in $3,150 Victoria's Secret theft
Four members of a theft crew that allegedly made off with more than $3,000 worth of Victoria's Secret merchandise from a Thousand Oaks store last week have been arrested, authorities said. The initial report came last Thursday when a patrol deputy from the Thousand Oaks Police Department responded to a theft call at the Victoria's Secret in The Oaks mall at 248 West Hillcrest Drive. Police services in the city are provided by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. The deputy determined about $3,150 of merchandise had been stolen from the retailer famous for stylish lingerie. vcstar.com

Stafford County, VA: 3 Arrested in $1,200 Walmart cell phone theft
The Stafford County Sheriff's Office arrested three suspects last week following the theft of over $1200 worth of cell phones from the Walmart in Washington Square Plaza. On June 24, Deputy T.A. Vasquez responded to the Walmart. A loss prevention employee advised the deputy that on June 21, 2018, at approximately 9:00 p.m., a male subject and two female subjects entered the store. They then headed to the electronics section and began filling the mask and purse with cell phones. One suspect admitted they pawned the cell phones and split the money between one another. fredericksburg.today

Niles, IL: Thieves steal merchandise from retailer, cause 3-car collision
during police pursuit
Patrice Baltimore, 46, was charged with retail theft on July 2. According to police, Baltimore and a male suspect, who was not apprehended, were accused of stealing $1,260 worth of merchandise from a store in Golf Mill Center before fleeing the area in a car. Police said an officer attempted to stop the car, but it ran a red light and caused a three-car crash. Both occupants of the car fled after the crash, but officers located a woman, identified as Baltimore, hiding in a bush. chicagotribune.com

Virginia Beach, VA: Police seeking suspects in Target refund scam
On April 30, police said this man and woman entered the Target store at Town Center and returned two external hard drives that had been bought on April 25. Loss Prevention opened the two hard drives and found the internal parts were missing and replaced with clay for weight. This same couple has done this at four other Target stores, police said. southsidedaily.com

Temecula, CA: 4 Arrested in Walmart theft; 'vehicle full of stolen merchandise'
Four thieves were arrested as they attempted to flee in a vehicle full of stolen merchandise from a Temecula Walmart before dawn today. Police received a report at 2 a.m. that a robbery had occurred at a Walmart, 32225 Temecula Parkway. An officer was dispatched to follow the getaway vehicle as it drove through the city.

The officer eventually pulled the suspects over and inside found "a significant amount of stolen property'' as well as "other items that are suspected to have been stolen at different locations,'' police said. All four people in the vehicle were arrested. myvalleynews.com facebook.com

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