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Genetec announces keynote speakers and partner pavilion
for Connect’DX Virtual Trade Show
Genetec President, Pierre Racz, takes on the AI hype. Starbucks, Barclays and
Uber discuss their Cloud-first approach. Leading industry voices from Intel,
Brekke Group and Convergint discuss security in a time of crisis
Genetec Inc., a leading technology
provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business
intelligence solutions today announced the keynote speakers and the details of
the partner pavilion for Genetec Connect’DX, the company’s first virtual trade
show taking place April 20-22, 2020.
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AI: Genetec President takes a pragmatic view
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A Cloud First approach to physical security: live panel discussion with
Barclays, Starbucks, and Uber
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Security Leadership in Time of Crisis
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Customer-led panels
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Partner and international pavilions
Read the full press release
here | Register for the virtual trade show
here
7PSolutions, Leader in Logistics Security and Risk Management Joins National
Efforts to Help Combat the Spread of Covid-19
7P Solutions has launched their Pandemic Monitoring Assistance Program with an initiative
offering donated services to help combat the spread of Covid-19. The company and
Board of Directors have committed to finding ways to give back during our
nation’s health crisis. In doing so, Jeff Clark and 7P are identifying
hospitals, health institutions and key centers that can benefit from the
company’s Pandemic Temperature Monitoring and Access Control Platform powered by ISB Global. 7P has always provided new technology to meet the needs of specific
industries – including health and pharma.
Read More Here
Coronavirus Update: April
16
US:
Over
650K
Cases - 33K Dead - 57K Recovered
Worldwide:
Over 2.1M Cases - 143K Dead - 543K Recovered
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New Retail Layoffs & Furloughs
Academy Sports + Outdoors announces furloughs for “substantial number” of
corporate & distribution center employees
Retail Sales Plunge
Globally
Worst ever decline recorded in the U.S. -
down 8.7% in March
Worst ever decline recorded in the UK -
down 4.3% in March
NYPD has hundreds more coronavirus cases than previously reported
A total of 4,080 members of the NYPD, 3,350 uniformed officers and 730
civilian employees have tested positive for the pandemic COVID-19 since the
outbreak hit New York City, police sources said. That number is nearly 1,300
more than the NYPD reported Tuesday in its daily coronavirus update, where it
said 2,232 officers and 568 employees were diagnosed with the virus. So far,
25 members of the NYPD have died from coronavirus
complications. Five of them were uniformed members and the other
20 were civilian employees.
nypost.com
Tracking Police COVID-19 Deaths
Police officers in at least 12 states have died due to COVID-19.
Click here to see a running list of law enforcement officials who have died
of the virus.
Business Leaders Urge Trump to Dramatically Increase Coronavirus Testing
During first call to discuss reopening country, executives tell president
more testing is needed to convince public to return to work
Banking
and financial services executives told President Trump that his administration
needed to dramatically increase the
availability of coronavirus testing before the public would be confident
enough to return to work, eat at restaurants or shop in retail establishments,
according to people familiar with the matter.
No potential dates for easing coronavirus restrictions were discussed, and no
follow-up meeting was scheduled. The task force, known formally as the Great
American Economic Revival Industry Groups, includes more than 200 business
and political leaders, who have been divided into smaller groups based on
their industry.
The people involved in the first call, which included executives from
banking, financial services, food and beverage, hospitality and retail
industries, described current testing levels in the U.S. as inadequate to
effectively reopen the economy.
Mr. Trump said he would release a new set of guidelines on Thursday about
reopening the country.
Some experts have said there should be millions of tests a week before
Americans can return to work.
wsj.com
Cuomo extends NY shutdown to May 15th as deaths pass 12,000
In order to prevent the disease from mounting a comeback, the governor extended
the policy for another month, a decision that he said was made in consultation
with other regional states New York has allied with to
plan an eventual economic revival.
Total hospitalizations, however, remained effectively flat, dipping slightly
from 18,335 on Tuesday to 17,735 on Wednesday, despite 1,996 new daily
hospitalizations.
Cuomo announced the extension as another 606 New Yorkers succumbed to the bug in
the 24-hour period ending midnight Thursday, raising the overall death toll to
12,192.
nypost.com
Americans Unemployed &
Protesting
Coronavirus Has Put 22 Million Out of Work & Another 5.2M Filing Unemployment
13% of the American workforce sidelined in just a month
Thursday’s
report came on the heels of other signs that the coronavirus crisis has plunged
the economy into a deep recession with more than nine in 10 Americans being told
to stay at home under local lockdown measures.
Retail sales plunged by a record 8.7 percent in March as
factory output suffered its largest decline since the end of World War II,
the feds revealed Wednesday.
Economists expect US payrolls to recover
less than half the jobs they lost to the coronavirus crisis by the end
of 2021, according to a recent survey by the National Association for Business
Economics.
nypost.com
Opponents of Stay-at-Home Orders Organize Protests at
State Capitols
People Are Getting Restless & Going Broke - Makes For a Powder Keg
In states like Michigan, North Carolina and Kentucky, people protested
against rules aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. More
demonstrations were planned.
Chanting ‘lock her up,’ Michigan protesters in MAGA hats mass against Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer
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In Michigan, thousands of demonstrators in cars
jammed the streets around the State Capitol in Lansing in protest of
restrictions to prevent spread of the coronavirus. In Frankfort, Ky.,
dozens of people shouted through a Capitol building window, nearly drowning
out Gov. Andy Beshear as he provided a virus update at a news conference. And in
Raleigh, N.C., at least one person was arrested during a protest that drew more
than 100 people in opposition to a stay-at-home rule,
The News & Observer reported.
In several states, protesters have taken to the streets to urge governors to
reopen businesses and relax strict rules that health officials have said are
necessary to save lives.
Future protests of stay-at-home limits have been announced in other
states, including Texas and Oregon, as the economic and health effects of
the coronavirus mount in the United States.
nytimes.com
Who's Protecting Essential
Workers?
What Are The Safety Measures & Who's Enforcing Them?
Here's Where the Lawsuits Are Coming
Covid Whistleblower Lawsuits Heating Up: What Industries Need To Know
Covid-19-related lawsuits are being filed nationwide. The three primary
plaintiff groups are consumers, employees and shareholders. Schmidt said
he’s seeing more and more employee lawsuits being filed as the weeks move on,
and he said no industry is safe from these lawsuits, with the latest
lawsuit filed against Trader Joe’s.
Among the types of lawsuits brought by employees are retaliation claims
for raising concerns with management on a variety of compliance issues, whether
or not relating to Covid-19. Schmidt said companies need to start doing some
things to protect themselves from this kind of litigation.
“In the Trader Joe’s case filed in Kentucky last week, the allegation is that
the company expressly terminated the plaintiff because of his complaints about
health and safety.
He added that companies should take steps now to be sure they have procedures in
place to address employee complaints and there is no retaliation for raising the
concern.
theshelbyreport.com
Workers Are Getting Sick & Dying
But OSHA won't crack down on businesses that fail to follow COVID-19 guidelines
As more of the nation’s essential workers become ill with coronavirus, the
federal agency responsible for employee safety is telling many of them that it
won't crack down on businesses that fail to follow COVID-19 guidelines.
The
U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s position has left some
workers, unions and advocates scrambling to figure out how to protect employees.
Workers say employers aren’t cleaning worksites properly, providing
protective equipment or telling them when coworkers became sick with the
coronavirus, interviews and records obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
show.
“Workers are left to fend for themselves right now,” said Rebecca Reindel,
safety and health director at the AFL-CIO.
OSHA won’t disclose how many complaints it has received regarding the virus. But
in Oregon, where state regulators have taken a more aggressive enforcement
stance, a spokesman said they received more complaints in a recent two-week
period than they typically get in an entire year.
Advocates say that advice is wildly inadequate: Police officers aren’t trained
in workplace safety, and many employees won’t risk calling the police for fear
of losing their jobs.
Some workers, he said, report not receiving protective equipment or training on
how to use it. Others said they are forced to work closely together.
On Tuesday, after pressure from worker groups and legislators, OSHA
issued new instructions, saying complaints affecting workers with a high
risk of exposure to coronavirus patients in certain health care jobs may
result in on-site inspections.
But complaints from essential workers in other sectors will typically trigger
only a letter asking the employer to investigate and respond with a
description of any corrective action taken. If an adequate response is not
received, OSHA may conduct an inspection.
Advocates say the new guidance is not enough. All essential employees working
now should be considered a high priority, said Marcy Goldstein-Gelb of the
National Council for Occupational Safety.
Last week, Vice President Mike Pence said that the government would continue “to
work tirelessly” with food industry employers to make sure workplaces are
safe.
But when Illinois attorney Tony Kalogerakos asked OSHA to open an investigation
into the death of a Walmart employee, the agency said it couldn’t.
Walmart supervisors, the lawsuit says, failed to follow cleaning, social
distancing and other safety guidelines; didn’t tell Evans and others that
coworkers had COVID-19 symptoms, and didn’t provide workers with protective
gear. An Evans coworker died from the virus a few days after he did,
according to the lawsuit.
“OSHA does not have any jurisdiction on enforcing anything related to COVID-19
at this time,” the OSHA official said in the voicemail, which Kalogerakos
provided to the Journal Sentinel.
jsonline.com
Spot Checks: Oregon OSHA to systematically check businesses
The state's workplace watchdog, Oregon Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, (Oregon OSHA) is launching spot checks following a sharp jump in
complaints about businesses not complying with the state's social distancing
requirements.
In a release, Oregon OSHA said it is ramping up its enforcement activity and
will begin systematically conducting spot checks to verify that employers are
complying with requirements – including closures to the public – aimed at
curbing the coronavirus pandemic.
The spot checks – which are in addition to more time-intensive, on-site
inspections initiated by the division – are intended to confirm whether
employers are actually doing what they are telling the division they are doing
in response to complaints.
thechronicleonline.com
Security & Safety -
Forever Intensified
As the World Awaits a Vaccine
Coronavirus Paves Way For New Era of Digital Surveillance
Coronavirus Pandemic Could Become a Watershed Moment Similar to 9/11
In an age of ubiquitous smartphones governments now have surveillance
capabilities unimaginable during prior outbreaks.
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In South Korea, investigators scan smartphone data to find within 10 minutes
people who might have caught the coronavirus from someone they met. Israel has
tapped its Shin Bet intelligence unit, usually focused on terrorism, to track
down potential coronavirus patients through telecom data. One U.K. police force
uses drones to monitor public areas, shaming residents who go out for a stroll.
The Covid-19 pandemic is ushering in a new era of digital surveillance and
rewiring the world’s sensibilities about data privacy.
Governments are imposing new digital surveillance tools to track and monitor
individuals. Many citizens have welcomed tracking technology intended to
bolster defenses against the novel coronavirus. Yet some privacy advocates are
wary, concerned that governments might not be inclined to unwind such practices
after the health emergency has passed.
Data flowing from the world’s 5.2 billion smartphones can help identify who,
where and how people get infected—and lasso in those who might.
Read more here
The Smart Approach to Reopening
New York taps McKinsey to develop 'Trump-proof' economic reopening plan
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has hired high-powered consultants to develop a
science-based plan for the safe economic reopening of the region that can thwart
expected pressure from President Donald Trump to move more rapidly, state
government sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Governors from seven East Coast states formed a coalition on Monday, led
by New York, to develop a joint reopening plan. Three governors from the West
Coast formed a similar plan. The 10 states, mostly led by Democrats,
together make up 38% of the U.S. economy.
As part of Cuomo’s effort, McKinsey & Company is producing models on testing,
infections and other key data points that will underpin decisions on how and
when to reopen the region’s economy, the sources said.
Deloitte is also involved in developing the regional plan, a source said.
Experts and governors have said there would need to be guarantees of
ramped-up coronavirus testing before people return to work safely.
reuters.com
Face Masks Now Required in New York
Anyone outside in public in New York will be required to wear a mask or some
kind of face covering under a new executive order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo on Wednesday said the order will apply only in situations where you
can't be physically distant from other people, like riding public transit. thehill.com
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New Role for New York Police: Breaking Up Crowds at Trader Joe’s
20% of NYPD Out Sick - 20 Dead From Covid-19
Crime has ebbed, but nearly 20 percent of the force is out sick. Officers
have become public health police, breaking up crowds at stores.
A
message popped up on Sgt. Joseph Rosso’s phone. The message said a small
crowd had gathered outside a Trader Joe’s grocery store in Lower Manhattan.
This is law enforcement in the age of a pandemic.
Sergeant Rosso and his partner, Officer Nicholas Contardo, are members of a
708-member task force that has been drawn from other duties to enforce
social-distancing rules intended to stem the spread of the
coronavirus.
Shaking his head, Sergeant Rosso stepped on the gas, and the police cruiser
lurched forward, its red and blue lights blaring. As the car neared 14th Street
and Second Avenue, about 10 people in front of the grocery store slowly stepped
apart.
The epidemic has affected almost every aspect of policing in the nation’s
biggest city. Violent crime has dropped precipitously. Patrol officers find
themselves reassigned to act as public health police of sorts, warning people
not to socialize. Detectives are responding to a growing number of calls to
investigate deaths at home; they wear Tyvek suits, gloves, masks and face
shields to prevent exposure to the virus.
But as crime has ebbed, police officers find themselves engaged in a very
different fight against a microscopic threat that makes every interaction with
the public dangerous to their health.
Nearly 20 percent of the 36,000-member police force has called in sick since the
virus began taking a toll in the department. At least 20 department employees,
including two detectives and a police officer, have died from Covid-19.
“Make no mistake. You are saving lives.” - Supermarkets and parks are hot
spots
nytimes.com
Shoppers Praise Grocers’ Response To Covid-19 Pandemic
Consumers Highest Priority - Sanitation Efforts @Stores
American consumers express a high degree of concern about the ongoing
novel coronavirus pandemic, with 92 percent concerned and 69 percent “extremely”
or “very” concerned. The vast majority of consumers (88 percent) also feel their
lives have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, with 63 percent saying
their lives have been extremely or very disrupted.
This overall sense of worry is heightened when it comes to grocery shopping
—an activity that all households must do and that brings to consumers’ homes and
bodies foods from an environment they don’t control. They worry about
inventory and getting sick, though concern about getting sick from other
shoppers is higher than getting sick from surfaces in the store itself.
In fact, two-thirds of consumers give their primary stores high marks for
their response to the outbreak and nearly a third give the highest mark.
Their highest-priority request of stores is continued sanitation efforts,
followed by finding ways to reduce shopper exposure to the store and others and
keeping up strong inventory in both fresh and shelf-stables categories.
The Hartman Group/FMI
U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends COVID-19 Tracker report.
theshelbyreport.com
Coronavirus Hobbles Corporate Compliance Monitoring
Lockdowns and curbs on travel have scuttled a crucial part of supervision:
the on-site visit
Lockdowns intended to blunt the spread of coronavirus are delaying the work of
corporate monitors who rely on visits to companies and access to sensitive data
to ensure that regulator-mandated changes to compliance regimes are being
upheld.
Corporate monitors are independent compliance experts appointed by regulators,
usually as part of a settlement.
“Monitorships that are currently in process in many respects are being slowed
down almost to a complete halt,” said John Hanson, president of the
International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors. “They can continue
in some capacity, but not in a full capacity.”
Prior to the pandemic, most site visits were periodic—lasting one to three weeks
at a stretch—to review transactions and conduct in-person interviews, and then
off-site for two to three months, Mr. Melican said. In other instances, a
monitor might pop into a company more frequently, once a week or once a month,
to attend meetings and make contacts, he said.
wsj.com
Restrictions to cross-border traffic between U.S. & Mexico & social distancing
has
slowed illegal drug trade
UK Coronavirus May Have Peaked as Deaths Rise to 12,868
Coronavirus: UK Government Promises App for Contact Tracing
Two Sheriffs
Warning of COVID-19 Crime Surge
17 States Releasing Prisoners
LA
County Sheriff fears possible surge in crime after releasing 4,276 nonviolent
inmates due to coronavirus
The Los Angeles County Sheriff told FOX 11 that his decision to release over
4,000 nonviolent inmates from county jail has been effective in preventing the
spread of COVID-19, however, he has concerns about a potential future surge of
crime as a result of so many inmates being released.
en-volve.com
Bristol County, Mass., Sheriff says:
“It’s
not the right time to open the doors and release inmates. It’s the absolute
worst time.”
Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said 80 percent of his jail population has
drug issues with compromised immune systems. If released, they will be out
without completing a treatment program, and going into communities that are now
without Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous programs because of
gatherings restrictions, the sheriff said. Also, the released inmates would have
few job prospects because businesses are closed due to the coronavirus crisis,
he added. “It’s not the right time to open the doors and release inmates. It’s
the absolute worst time,” Hodgson said.
thesunchronicle.com
Rite Aid to open more Testing Sites in coming weeks utilizing the self-swab
nasal tests
J.C. Penney explores bankruptcy as hopes for recovery fade - sources
Neiman Marcus Skips Bond Payment
Facebook is Running New Workshops to Help Group Admins Manage Communities Amid
COVID-19
Quarterly Results
Bed Bath & Beyond Q4 comp's down 10%, digital sales up 16%, sales down 6.1%
Bed Bath & Beyond full yr comp's down 6.8%, net sales down 7.2%
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Could Your Retailer Be Price Gouging?
Price Gouging Laws Triggered By States Of Emergency Pose Risks For National And
Local Retailers
Prices ordinarily fluctuate on the basis of supply and demand. But during a
governmentally declared state of emergency, so-called “price gouging” laws can
take effect, imposing controls on price increases for a variety of items and
carrying the threat of serious fines for violations.
Companies must be cautious at this time because many decisions to raise
prices could later be deemed an illegal gouging of vulnerable consumers.
Compliance is complicated, particularly for sellers that utilize the
Amazon platform and market products nationally, because more than half of U.S.
states have price gouging laws, and they vary significantly – not only as to
what items are covered, but how the key terms are defined.
A coordinated response is needed because an investigation by one state can
trigger inquiries by other states.
To date, at least 33 state attorneys general have initiated investigations
into allegations of price gouging arising out of the coronavirus crisis.
The U.S. Department of Justice has also formed a COVID-19 Hoarding and
Price Gouging Task Force that has seized critical medical supplies and
distributed them where needed, and paying the owners the "pre-COVID-19 fair
market value" of the products.
Price gouging laws make it unlawful to sell certain merchandise and services at
an excessive price during a declared emergency. Many governors have declared
emergencies in their state due to COVID-19.
As a result, the sale of some merchandise, including surgical masks, hand
sanitizers, disinfectant sprays and wipes, certain foods and bottled water, are
being monitored by the various state Attorney General offices for
evidence of illegal price hikes.
The definition of “price gouging” varies significantly from state to state.
Some states use specific formulas to determine whether a company has unfairly
increased prices, while others use a combination of subjective factors, without
setting any exact price value.
jdsupra.com
Work from home, phase 2: What comes next for security?
Phase 1 was all about employee access, network communications
confidentiality/integrity, and basic endpoint security. The next phases will
move quickly from risk assessment to mitigation.
Some organizations are implementing split tunneling so key employees can access
VPNs and the internet simultaneously. Some are paying to upgrade employee
bandwidth — especially for executives spending their days on videoconference
meetings while their children use the same networks for home schooling. My
colleague Bob Laliberte also tells me about companies instrumenting key employee
systems with WAN optimization software. Back at corporate, there’s also lots of
load balancing and SD-WAN activity.
From a security perspective, forward-thinking CISOs are now on to phase 2
focused on situational awareness and risk assessment. This is directly
related to the fact that a lot of LAN traffic has been rerouted to WANs and
internet connections. The goal? Scope out the new realities of usage patterns
and the attack surface.
To gain this level of visibility, organizations are deploying endpoint security
agents to assess device posture and system-level activities. Think Tanium agents
and EDR software from vendors like Carbon Black, CrowdStrike, and Cybereason.
Security pros also recognize that employee home networks may be populated with
insecure IoT devices, out-of-date family PCs, etc., so I’ve heard of instances
where security teams are doing home network scans as well. Finally, there is an
increased focus on network traffic monitoring travelling back-and-forth on VPNs
or directly out to SaaS providers and the public cloud.
csoonline.com
Coronavirus-Related Spear Phishing Attacks See 667% Increase in March 2020
Scams & Brand Impersonation Attacks Dominate
Barracuda researchers have seen a steady increase in the number of
coronavirus or COVID-19-related spear-phishing attacks since January 2020,
but they have observed a recent spike in this type of attack, up 667-percent
since the end of February 2020.
Between March 1 and March 23, 2020 Barracuda Sentinel has detected 467,825
spear-phishing email attacks, and 9,116 of those detections were related to
COVID-19, representing about 2 percent of attacks, says Fleming Shi, Chief
Technology Officer at Barracuda. In comparison, a total of 1,188
coronavirus-related spear-phishing attacks were detected in February, and just
137 were detected in January, he adds. Although the overall number of these
attacks is still low compared to other threats, the threat is growing
quickly, he warns.
Barracuda researchers have seen three main types of
phishing attacks using coronavirus COVID-19 themes — scamming, brand
impersonation, and
business email compromise. Of the coronavirus-related attacks detected by
Barracuda Sentinel through March 23, 54 percent were scams, 34 percent were
brand impersonation attacks, 11 percent were blackmail, and 1 percent are
business email compromise.
securitymagazine.com
The New Norm
Coronavirus turns up the heat on cybersecurity projects
Tighten 3rd Parties - Showing Off Their Work on Social Media - Sharing
Devices @Home
For all the havoc it’s wreaked, the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed many of these
cybersecurity projects initiatives to the forefront where they’re gaining
traction. “Any technology available today that helps employees with this
transition to working remotely is going to see a huge acceleration and new
innovations to help with likely see this becoming the new norm.”
Cloud migration. Still hesitant about moving to the cloud? Get over it.
Locking down the supply chain. Most security teams worry about the
security of supply chains – with good reason. Third parties have been the
entry point for hackers into larger, more data rich companies. With all the
companies connected along the supply chain, the risk grows greater. Now is
the time to tighten requirements. Rawlins says start with asking “your
suppliers what they might do to maintain their security in the meantime and
encourage them to make incremental improvements in other areas to compensate –
increasing logging. improving their patching, ensuring multi-factor
authentication and enhancing their own.”
Recruitment. If it seems like the only companies hiring these days are food,
grocery and delivery services, think again. While many organizations are
trying to keep costs way down and have implemented hiring freezes, the security
challenges raised by working through the pandemic might strengthen the pitch
to aggressively pursue skilled cybersecurity professionals to add to your
roster.
Social media compliance. Even the tightest social media policy might be
challenged as the bulk of the workforce works from home. “There is a growing
movement of showing off your ‘work from home’ setup on social media, and
this can lead to operational security issues,” says Ragland.
IoT security. The exposure of public Wi-Fi replaced by sharing devices
in the home and the need to ensure that basic cyber hygiene principles are
being followed.
Identity & access management - Building in efficiency - Expanded corporate
network support - Security awareness & cyber hygiene - Threat monitoring -
Securing remote computing - Zero trust networking
scmagazine.com
Slack's Incoming Webhooks Can Be Weaponized in Phishing Attacks
Security researchers exploring attack vectors in collaboration platform Slack
have discovered a way its Incoming Webhooks could be leveraged to launch
phishing attacks against employees.
Incoming Webhooks is a feature designed to give people an easy way to share
messages from external applications in the Slack platform. Users can send a
message to any webhook for which they know the URL, in any workspace, regardless
of whether they're a member. Webhooks use normal HTTP requests with a JSON
payload, which includes the message and optional details.
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Security for Outdoor Cannabis Grows
By
Tony Gallo, Managing Partner & Katharine Baxter, Lead Technical Writer for
Sapphire Risk Advisory Group
Choosing the right safety measures to protect an outdoor
cannabis grow facility can often be more difficult than security for an
indoor grow. Since not all security equipment is suitable for outdoor
conditions, it’s important to research what is appropriate for security for
outdoor cannabis grows.
Barriers and Lighting
One of the most crucial security measures to implement with outdoor grows is
creating a physical and/or visual
barrier between your crop and potential thieves. Installing proper fencing
can help prevent intrusion, starting with the entry and exit points of the
property. When physical or visual barriers are in place, potential criminals are
deterred from gaining unauthorized access to a property or from stealing
valuable assets.
Video
Surveillance
Cameras should be installed onto fences or posts surrounding the perimeter of
the property to identify individuals and vehicles. These cameras should be
placed at all entry and exit points of the property to capture license plate
numbers and the make and model of vehicles, as well as to identify the drivers.
Camera placement is crucial in implementing a
successful
video surveillance system – but the more detail desired from the footage,
the more expensive the equipment will be.
Read more here
Cannabis companies want access to Covid-19 financial help
Cannabis businesses have been deemed
essential in some states, but their operations remain federally illegal
Industry leaders and some members of Congress are highlighting that dichotomy
and appealing for cannabis businesses to have access to
emergency funding and other avenues of
financial assistance. They say those operations, too, are navigating
uncertainty,
furloughing workers, closing facilities and facing potential financial
ruin because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In recent weeks, cannabis organizations and
several federal lawmakers have called for the extension of Small Business
Administration loan programs to state-licensed cannabis businesses as well
as ancillary companies -- firms that are not "plant-touching" but rather provide
products and services to the emerging industry.
"This industry is considered essential by most of the states that we're
operating in," F. Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis
Industry Association, said in an interview with CNN Business. "If that's the
case, it only makes sense that we should also have access to the lending
programs ... and just to be treated fairly."
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professionals work with not just loss prevention, but also with store
optimization, operational efficiencies, and enhancements to the overall customer
experience. Hedgie Bartol, LPQ, Retail Business Development Manager for
Axis Communications, tells us how the global leader in network video can
help retailers can bring together their video surveillance, physical access
control and now audio systems to create a full solution that goes beyond
security and helps grow the business.
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Going After Price Gougers Aggressively
Amazon Aims to Test All Employees for Covid-19
Amazon has started building a testing capacity to diagnose all employees for
Covid-19, including those who display no symptoms.
“We have begun assembling the equipment we need to build our first lab and hope
to start testing small numbers of our front-line employees soon,” Mr. Bezos said
Thursday. “We are not sure how far we will get in the relevant time frame, but
we think it’s worth trying, and we stand ready to share anything we learn.”
The Seattle company has turned over information from sellers suspected to
have engaged in price gouging for essential products to 42 state
attorneys general offices, and state attorneys general can communicate with
Amazon through a communication channel the company has set up, Mr. Bezos said.
Amazon has removed more than 500,000 offers from its stores and
suspended more than 6,000 selling accounts globally due to price gouging, he
said.
Amazon is also paying associates double their regular rate for overtime
work at a minimum of $34 an hour, Mr. Bezos said, adding that these wage
increases will cost the company more than $500 million through the end of April.
The company has established an initial $25 million relief fund for
independent delivery-service partners and their drivers, Amazon Flex
participants and temporary workers under financial distress, Mr. Bezos said.
wsj.com
Amazon Closed Six French Warehouses Over Safety Issues - Biggest Fall out Yet
Amazon has no clarity yet on when its warehouses in France might reopen, the
head of its French business said on Thursday, after the e-commerce giant clashed
with unions over the measures taken to limit the risks of coronavirus contagion.
Amazon
closed six French warehouses used to stock and package goods for shipment on
Thursday until at least April 20, in one of the biggest fallouts yet from a
growing stand-off with its workers over safety measures during the pandemic.
The world’s largest online retailer is facing mounting scrutiny on both sides of
the Atlantic as it juggles a surge in online orders during unprecedented
lockdowns during the pandemic and employees’ safety.
France is the only country where it has shut down all of its so-called
fulfillment centres after unions complained that they were still too crowded and
filed a legal challenge.
A court sided with the workers on Tuesday, ordering Amazon to focus only on
delivering essential items like food while it revised health protocols.
Duval added that rather than limiting its activities, Amazon had temporarily
suspended trade through the warehouses because the court order, which included a
1 million-euro ($1.1 million) per day penalty for non-compliance, was too vague.
Amazon’s vice president of the European Union segment, Roy Perticucci, has
stepped down, the company confirmed on Wednesday, a day after the French court’s
ruling.
reuters.com
US consumers report $12M in COVID-19 scam losses since January
FTC
has received more than 16K Coronavirus-related reports from consumers.
Consumers reported losing a total of $12.78M to fraud w/ a reported median
loss of $570," said the agency today.
According to the FTC, consumers reported 16,778 fraud incidents so far, with
roughly 46.3% of fraud complaints also reporting a loss between January 1,
2020 - April 12, 2020.
Most reports were received from California with 2,010 consumers saying
that they were targeted by fraudsters, followed by Florida, New York, and
Texas with over 1,000 complaints each.
Scammers targeting consumers looking for travel and vacations deal were behind
over 2,800 fraud attempts reported to the FTC, while online shopping and text
message-based scams were trailing behind with 1,741 and 1,017 reports,
respectively.
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May 9, 2016)
Woman gets 3 years for role
in $200M credit card fraud scam A Philadelphia
woman has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for her role in a
$200 million credit card fraud scheme the U.S. Department of Justice calls the
largest it has prosecuted. Vernina Adams had pleaded guilty. She was sentenced
Friday in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey.
The Department of Justice
says the New Jersey-based crime ring created more than 7,000 fake identities to
get tens of thousands of credit cards. Nineteen people were charged, including
the 34-year-old Adams in 2013.
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Waterford, CT: Two arrested for theft of $39K In Merchandise From Home Depot
Police
have arrested two people in connection with stealing $39,000 in merchandise from
a local Home Depot. The investigation began in January and culminated Wednesday
with two arrests. Zachary Eckard, 30, was charged with first-degree larceny and
organized retail theft. He was held on $25,000 bond. Erin Kievits 33, was
charged with second-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny. She was
held on $5,000 bond. Both are scheduled to appear in New London Superior Court
June 4. The department's investigation was in conjunction Home Depot Loss
Prevention, which began an investigation into a series of thefts occurring at
various Home Depot store locations in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and
Massachusetts.
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Fairbanks, AK: Woman arrested for punching Fred Meyer employee confronting her
about $1,000 of stolen items
Audra Jean Hamilton, 27, was arrested after she allegedly spent two hours inside
of West Fred's stealing items, and then punched an employee who attempted to
stop her. Charging documents say that Kevin Watts, a loss prevention officer for
Fred Meyer, watched Hamilton load two suit cases and a back pack with stolen
goods. When she left the store he attempted to stop her on the side walk when
she punched him in the face. She left the suitcases but ran off with the
backpack. According to police, Hamilton then tried to get drivers at the gas
station to drive her away but they refused. She left the gas station and was
located by police in the parking lot of the Extended Stay Hotel. Hamilton has
been charged with multiple counts including Robbery in the second degree, theft
and assault.
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Lake Havasu, AZ: Man arrested in 3 separate shoplifting incidents; theft of Baby
Formula
Joliet, IL: Amazon Fulfillment Center employee arrested for felony theft
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Shootings & Deaths
Omaha, NE: Man assaulted outside Grocery store in March has died
A 49-year-old man who was punched three weeks ago outside a grocery store and
fell, striking his head on the concrete, has died, Omaha police said. His death
is the city’s eighth homicide this year. Horace Steen of Omaha was punched
outside J-N-J Grocery on March 25 about 8 p.m. Witnesses told officers that
Steen fell to the ground after he was struck and his head hit the pavement.
Authorities arrested Massey Allen Jr., 57, the next day in connection with the
assault. He was charged with first-degree felony assault, but now that Steen has
died, his charges most likely will be upgraded.
Allen has served five stints in Nebraska prison — eight months in 1992
for burglary; six years from 1994 to 2000 for burglary, theft and avoiding
arrest; seven months in 2009 for cocaine possession; one year from 2010 to 2011
for theft; and one year from 2014 to 2015 for theft by receiving stolen
property.
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Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Columbia, MD: Man says he was tasered by a Security Guard for wearing a mask to
a Grocery store
Many
people in communities of color are worried about wearing face masks in public,
even though it's now required in several places. A Tunisian-American pharmacy
manager said a security guard tasered and handcuffed him on April 4 for wearing
a mask to protect himself in a grocery store. Makram Megdiche said he stopped at
the LA Mart in Columbia on his way home from work. He said a security guard
confronted him outside. "I pulled my face mask off and said, 'you know me now?'"
Megdiche said. Megdiche said he stops at the store almost every day, as it's
within walking distance of his home. Still wearing the mask and hood, he said he
grabbed some fruit, and said the guard stopped him again as he was checking out.
"I said, 'Sir, can you keep your social distance please?' I did not even finish
the sentence, and he tased me," Megdiche said. A woman who answered the phone at
the LA Mart when WUSA9 called said Megdiche had run his cart into the security
guard, but Megdiche denies that.
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Nashville, TN: Store Burglary rates rise; home burglaries take massive downturn
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact crime rates. The Tennessee Bureau of
Investigation is actively tracking trends in crime since the virus began
spreading. Recently released data from January through March shows burglary
cases are down by about 17%. Home burglaries are down 20%, which could be
attributed to many people being at home much of the time. At convenience
stores, liquor stores and department and discount stores, burglaries are all up.
Violent thefts are down 5%. COVID-19 isn’t stopping crimes involving firearms;
they’re actually up 3%.
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Monroe County, WI: Six Men charged with $10,000 Armed Robbery of Verizon store
in 2016
New Haven, CT: Man caught eating, drinking beer in closed restaurant for four
days
Cargo Theft
Mexico: Armed Robbers Board Offshore Vessel, Steal Goods
A Maersk Supply Service's offshore vessel was a target of an armed robbery in
Mexico last weekend. Maersk Supply Service confirmed for Offshore Engineer that
the incident occurred on Sunday, April 12 offshore Ciudad Del Carmen, Mexico.
oedigital.com
Counterfeit
Trump Campaign issues cease and desist to Nashville couple over Counterfeit
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Boost – Nashville, TN
– Armed Robbery
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C-Store – Tulsa, OK –
Armed Robbery
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C-Store – Eugene, OR –
Armed Robbery
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C-Store – Santa Maria,
CA – Armed Robbery
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CVS – Janesville, WI –
Robbery/ Assault
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Family Dollar – Akron,
OH – Armed Robbery
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Liquor – Lincoln, NE –
Robbery / Assault
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Liquor – Hoboken, NJ –
Burglary
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Restaurant – New
Haven, CT – Burglary
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Restaurant - Sonoma
County, CA – Burglary
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Restaurant – Fort
Myers, FL – Robbery/ Assault
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Tractor Supply –
Clearlake, CA – Burglary
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Walgreens – Madison,
WI – Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven – Bay City,
MI – Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven – Shelby
Township, MI - Armed Robbery
Daily Totals:
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