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Long-term LPRC member Perry Resnick shares what factors went into his decision to invest part of his operating budget in the LPRC, and how the group's evidence-based research helps him in selling programs and obtaining capital from his senior leadership.

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Find out how Russ has lead three companies through tumultuous times to stay ahead of the curve and how you can cultivate a corporate culture of innovation at your business today.

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New Magecart credit card skimming group is targeting ad-related websites
A new subgroup of the Magecart digital credit card skimming gang has been detected that’s targeting advertising-related websites with a new strain of malware, security researchers from RiskIQ Inc. revealed today.

Dubbed Magecart Group 12, the subgroup is said to have been founded in September. It’s specifically gaining access to targets via third-party suppliers of code meant to improve websites, such as content delivery networks.

In one case that targeted French ad agency Adverline, the Magecart group inserted code via the company’s CDN provider to steal credit card data. “In this case, the group compromised a content delivery network for advertisements to include a stager containing the skimmer code so that any website loading script from the ad agency’s ad tag would inadvertently load the Magecart skimmer for visitors,” the researchers explained. siliconangle.com

WEF: Cyber-Attacks a Major Global Risk for Next Decade
The vast majority of senior decision makers across the globe expect data theft and cyber-disruption to increase in 2019, according to the latest report from the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The annual Global Risks Report for 2019 uses interviews with risk experts, business leaders, academics and others to better understand the challenges facing the world economy.

Rising dependency on technology ensured cyber-related risk remained front-of-mind for respondents, both in the near and long-term.

Some 82% said they expect data and monetary theft attacks to increase in 2019, while 80% said the same for cyber-related disruption to operations and infrastructure.

Over the next decade, respondents placed data fraud/theft and cyber-attacks fourth and fifth in terms of most likely risks, while cyber-attacks and “critical information infrastructure breakdown” were placed seventh and eighth in terms of biggest potential impact. infosecurity-magazine.com

BEC Groups Ramp Up Payroll Diversion Attacks
Criminals are increasingly trying to defraud businesses by diverting payrolls of CEOs, other senior executives, Agari says.

Attackers are ramping up efforts to try and scam HR employees at many businesses into diverting the payrolls of CEOs and other highly compensated executives to fraudulent accounts.

Security vendor Agari says it has observed a recent and considerable increase in such payroll diversion attempts via social engineering. The criminal gangs behind these scams appear to have invested considerable resources into understanding organizational hierarchies and knowing exactly whom to target, Agari said in a report this week.

"Payroll diversion has become an emerging threat during the past year," says Crane Hassold, senior director of threat research at Agari. The attacks began ramping up in Q4 2018 and are the latest evolution in business email compromise (BEC) scams, he says. darkreading.com

Why Compliance Does Not Equal Security
A company can be 100% compliant and yet 100% owned by cyber criminals. Many companies document every cybersecurity measure and check all appropriate compliance boxes. Even after all that, they still hit the headlines and lose customer data. Compliance doesn’t mean security.

To understand this gap between compliance and security, we must follow cybersecurity regulation back to its roots: banking regulation. Financial regulation emerged to discourage unwanted behavior such as insider trading. In this world, compliance means documenting transgressions for investigation after the fact. If inappropriate behavior occurs, a bank can punish wrongdoers and make things right afterward. In short, banking compliance is a form of deterrence.

In cybersecurity, stolen data stays stolen. It’s difficult to make a customer whole again once their data falls into the hands of a criminal. In any case, those criminals are halfway around the world and protected by governments that won’t prosecute them. Deterrents are not as effective here -- we need effective prevention.

Organizations need to rethink the way they view cybersecurity. Companies must abandon the least-effort, box-ticking approach to compliance in favor of a goal-driven mindset that focuses on protecting customer data rather than filling out forms.

We’re not there yet. Until the C-suite and senior management embrace security as an ethos that goes far beyond simple compliance, we need three interim measures: Prescriptive Regulation, Regular Investigation, A Cycle Of Improvement. Read more: forbes.com

Global Cybersecurity Market to Eclipse $300B by 2024

LCBO thefts have spiralled to 'epidemic proportions' and now make up nearly half of all shoplifting from Toronto’s most-hit retailers
The looting of Toronto’s vulnerable LCBO outlets has spiralled to epidemic proportions — undergoing more than a threefold increase over the past five years — and the latest figures show it accounts for nearly half of all shoplifting incidents at the most frequently hit retail outlets in the city.

The issue of brazen, broad-daylight liquor theft, quantified for the first time two weeks ago in a Toronto Star investigation showing the city’s LCBO shops have been targeted more than 9,000 times since 2014, was sobering enough.

But a deeper dive into raw shoplifting data obtained from the Toronto Police Service, isolating the year-over-year increases — together with corroborating accounts from more than 20 LCBO whistleblowers who have approached the Star since the first story was published — now provides a far more detailed understanding of the scope and acceleration of the problem.

In 2014, police data shows, LCBO outlets accounted for just over a tenth of the shoplifting incidents at the top 100 most frequently targeted addresses of shoplifting incidents in Toronto. By 2017, it was a third. And halfway through 2018, the most recent data in the Star’s possession shows LCBOs accounted for nearly half of shoplifting incidents, with liquor heists happening more than three times as often as they did in 2014. thestar.com

Are illegal kickbacks in Ontario driving up the cost of your generic drugs?
Hidden camera investigation raises questions about McKesson Canada
A hidden camera investigation and confidential documents obtained by CBC's The Fifth Estate raise questions about whether Canada's largest pharmaceutical distributor is profiting from illegal kickbacks on sales of generic drugs in Ontario. The investigation captured conversations with three independent pharmacists at two pharmacies who suggest McKesson is breaking the law in Ontario, where kickbacks on generic drugs are illegal.

Along with conducting the hidden camera investigation, The Fifth Estate obtained an internal McKesson presentation given to its employees, as well as a confidential document filed in a hearing at the Ontario College of Pharmacists. Both documents raise the same question: Is McKesson Canada profiting from illegal kickbacks in Ontario?

Are they giving kickbacks to independent pharmacists in Ontario in order to secure sales or collecting kickbacks from generic drugs manufacturers in exchange for stocking a particular brand in their own Ontario stores?

Studies have shown this practice drives up the cost of generic drugs for all Canadians. McKesson Canada, which distributes pharmaceutical drugs to more than 8,000 pharmacies in this country and recently purchased more than 400 Rexall pharmacies, denies the allegation. cbc.ca

Canadians Spent $1.6 Billion on Legal Weed in 2018
The Third Largest Weed Market in the World
Canadians spent $1.6 billion on legal weed in 2018, more than double the amount that was spent on solely medical cannabis in 2017. The State of Legal Marijuana Market, released Tuesday by Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics, found that despite pushing legalization back from the summer until October, Canada still managed to increase its spending on legal weed from $755 million to $1.6 billion, making it the number three legal weed market in the world. According to Statistics Canada, Canadians spent $5.7 billion on weed in 2017, the vast majority of which came from black market.

The new report predicts Canada’s legal weed market will hit $7.8 billion in 2022, at which point it is expected to overtake California as the top legal weed regime globally. Recreational cannabis is expected to far surpass medical cannabis sales, however the report says medical weed will still generate $1.4 billion in revenue by 2022. vice.com

Loblaw Unveils New Structure Without CEO
Canadian retailer Loblaw will eliminate the role of CEO and expand the role of President Sarah Davis, who has been with the retailer for 12 years. Galen Weston will drop the CEO title and become executive chairman. delimarketnews.com


Canada Store Openings & Expansions
● ‘Le Labo’ Opens 2nd Canadian Location in Vancouver
● Indochino Announces Plans for up to 20 Retail Locations in 2019
● Canada's Aritzia eyes more U.S. expansion next year as popularity surges
● Grocer Farm Boy opens central store in Leslieville Jan. 31
● Save-On-Foods has tentative opening date in Medicine Hat

Canadian arm of Gymboree files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Lowe's Canada is looking to hire more than 2,500 people in Ontario this February

More Store Closures for Canada this Month

Four out of 10 Canadians shopped from their cell phone in 2018

Hamilton says yes to legal retail cannabis stores after vote to opt out fails

How A&W's CEO is cooking up fast-food success in Canada

THE TOY ASSOCIATION FIGHTS BACK AGAINST COUNTERFEIT TOYS
The Toy Association‘s new white paper, The Real Threat of Fake Toys: The Increase of Knockoff and Counterfeit Toys Sold Online & How to Fight Back, identifies three main factors contributing to the upsurge in knock-off, counterfeit, and otherwise illicit toys being sold via online marketplaces.

The Toy Association suggests three main solutions to combat each of these factors contributing to the problem:

Solution to Insufficient Vetting by Marketplaces: The Toy Association proposes online marketplaces need to do more to proactively screen sellers and products. Marketplaces could be required to collect verified contact information, such as screening sellers similar to the way certain social media channels have proposed verifying authenticity and contact information for those seeking to run certain political or issue ads. Products could be screened to demonstrate legitimacy and safety of the products and instituting improved tracking of products to sellers.

Solution to the Burden of Enforcement Disproportionately Placed on Rights Holders: Online marketplaces should work with industry organizations and brand owners to create programs that give the presumption to IP rights holders, and provide more streamlined removal processes, a direct point of contact for the industry, trainings to industry groups on best practices, and more transparency to stop culprits.

Solution to a Lack of Consumer Awareness: More consumer education on the risks of buying online is needed. If online marketplaces refuse to monitor sellers and products as proposed above, one option is to allow rights holders to create “official” product listings. Along the same lines, a “verified” stamp for sellers similar to the verified stamp as seen on many social media sites could also be instituted. toybook.com

Advertisers are out of step with online shoppers
There are more opportunities than ever for advertisers to connect with consumers during their online shopping journeys. But, are advertisers using these e-commerce opportunities to effectively reach their audiences and maximize business results? The short answer: No.

Research by Catalyst and ClickZ, summarized in a white paper entitled “The Era of E-commerce, Maximizing the B2C Marketing Opportunity”, reveals a major disconnect between how consumers are searching and shopping across various e-commerce sites and how advertisers are approaching and investing in e-commerce advertising opportunities.

From a platform perspective, advertisers overwhelmingly favor Amazon and Google despite consumer preference for a wide range of retail sites. As mentioned above, 85% of browsing and purchasing activity occurs with non-Amazon retailers; however, our research found that only 25% of US brands have a strategy for e-commerce retailers beyond Amazon. This misalignment is particularly noticeable in specific verticals. For example, our research has found that while 20% of consumers have visited Best Buy to view product descriptions, only 8% of consumer electronics retailers say they have created specific content for their PDPs (product description pages) on this website. Overall, only 4% of brands optimize their PDPs on non-Amazon retailers, only 3% track their organic search rankings on these sites, and just 2% buy display or paid search ads on sites like Walmart, Target, and Macy’s. digitalcommerce360.com

Global Cross-Channel Payment Fraud Increases 13% During 2018 Peak Holiday Season

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Boise, ID: Washington man arrested for over 30 retail burglaries; crimes linked to his eBay account
Following an investigation into retail theft in the Boise area, Boise Police say Kyle Williamson-Smith, 30, has been arrested in East Wenatchee, Washington. Williamson–Smith was booked into the Chelan County Jail on Sunday, January 13, for warrants out of Ada County.

“Williamson Smith is believed to be responsible for stealing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise from over a dozen Boise area retailers -- as well as retailers in Northern Idaho, Oregon, and Washington,” according to a Boise Police news release. Williamson-Smith struck local stores again in December and January, but police were unable to find out his identity. Ultimately, however, investigators were able to identify Williamson-Smith through his eBay account, where he was selling many of the stolen items, police say.  ktvb.com

Indio, CA: Man Accused In Diamond, Electronics Robbery Spree Nabbed In Vegas; $29,000 of merchandise stolen from JCPenney
A man accused in three Riverside County robberies within a single afternoon last summer, culminating in a police pursuit stretching from Cathedral City to Palm Springs, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony grand theft charges. Darquise Smith, 32, is accused of stealing two diamond rings from a JCPenney store at the Westfield Palm Desert mall, three diamond bracelets from a JCPenney store in Hemet, and electronics from a Cathedral City Target store on the afternoon of Aug. 9. The spree began around 2 p.m. at the JCPenney in Hemet, where Smith allegedly reached into a cabinet and snatched three bracelets valued at $3,000 each. He later inquired about several pieces of jewelry at the JCPenney in the Westfield Palm Desert mall, and reached into the display case and grabbed the rings when an employee wasn't looking. A JCPenney representative valued the total loss at $29,0000. patch.com

Berkeley, CA: Lululemon hit for 120 pairs of pants
On Jan. 9 at 3:52 p.m., four women entered Lululemon (1901 Fourth St.) carrying bags. They filled their bags with about 120 pairs of Lululemon pants then ran from the store. Witnesses describe the suspects as black and about 18 years old. Two wore light-colored tracksuits and another wore a dark hooded sweatshirt. berkeleyside.com

New Zealand: Baby car seats used in duo's shoplifting strategy
A shoplifting duo have admitted using baby car seats to smuggle more than $2000 worth of groceries out of Taranaki supermarkets. The summary of facts provided by police said the first stop was a Bunnings hardware store, where they spent a considerable amount of time walking around, concealing items worth $3,858.37.

About 6.30pm the defendants entered Stratford's Countdown supermarket, each carrying a baby car seat capsule covered with a blanket. After putting the capsules into shopping trolleys, Mackay and Ratahi walked around the supermarket and stashed stolen items inside them. At 7.30pm, the pair arrived at the Valley Countdown store in Waiwhakaiho, New Plymouth, again with the car seats in hand, and carried out the same strategy they used in Stratford. The women then hit the Spotswood Countdown and repeated the offences. By 9pm, they arrived at the Vogeltown Countdown and again deployed their modus operandi again. However this time the twosome were stopped by staff at the self-service check out. About $540 in stolen groceries were found and the police, who turned up to the call-out, found multiple shopping bags "crammed" with items in the pair's car, the summary of facts said. These shoplifted items had a total value of $2314.70. stuff.co.nz

Wilkins Township, PA: Shoplifter accused of carting off $1,500 in tools from Pa. Home Depot
Police in Wilkins Township have released a store surveillance image of the suspect, along with his shopping cart brimming with tools. pennlive.com

Beachwood,OH: Man arrested for stealing more than $4,000 worth of clothes from Dillard's

Hamden, CT: Shoplifters sought after $3,000 in cold, flu products stolen from Walgreens

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