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Emerging Loss Prevention Issues: Training is Key
Carol Leaman, CEO of
Axonify, and Lisa LaBruno, EVP Retail Operations, RILA
Filmed in January 2014 at the Daily's 'Live in NYC at the NRF Big
Show 2014' event
Carol Leaman,
CEO of Axonify, sits down
with Lisa LaBruno,
Executive Vice President of Retail Operations for the Retail Industry Leaders
Association (RILA), to
discuss the major challenges retail Loss Prevention programs face and how
effective training can help mitigate those risks. Lisa describes the four areas
of training associated with LP apprehensions, including the specific components
of a successful training program.
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Messages to the Loss
Prevention Family
from Industry Leaders
 John
Matas, CFE, CFI - Macy's
Corporate Principal - Fraud & Profit Protection
An employee could have any number of motivators for
stealing from your organization, but the 4 primary are: 1-Need,
2-Retribution, 3-Impulse, 4-Greed
Any employee, either currently working or returning from being unemployed, could
fall into the first two motivators with the primary being obvious financial
need. The second and most disturbing would be retribution against the company.
This retribution or perceived revenge will most likely be based on negative
attitude against the company for being furloughed. Common sense would tell us
that any theft or fraud that converts to money on the spot would be their top
priority in first few weeks upon returning.
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How Do We Safely Restart the American Economy & Maintain Personal Privacy? It
Can Happen.
 By
Peter Trepp
CEO & President, FaceFirst
What we do next will change our tomorrow. U.S. unemployment rates have reached
double digits and could rise to depression-levels or more soon enough. Peak
infection rates appear to be in reach, but leaders are weary to reopen regions
of the country for fear of new outbreaks. We are inexorably locked between a
severe economic crisis and a severe health crisis. Reopening the American
economy would relieve some of this pressure, but this is not as simple as
putting people back to work. We also need to
reopen schools, airports, public venues and provide critical information to the
medical community. How do we do that without putting lives at stake?
A patchwork of existing programs will, sadly, not get us there fast enough.
Testing alone isn’t enough.
Rolling shutdowns can be brutal. We are on verge of settling for less, when we
don’t need to.
The economy will reopen in two phases. Phase one, we are in today, is marked by
individuals who have had COVID-19 and recovered. These people will be our
frontline “safe workers” who have acquired the antibodies through illness and
can return to “normal life” with little risk. Of course, this list will grow as
more people recover. Phase two will occur months from now when a vaccine becomes
widely available and everyone else will have acquired the antibodies. Based on
public timetables these two phases could last two years or more.
If we want to restart the economy sooner rather than later,
 we
need a mechanism to know who has the antibodies and who does not. We need to
certify individuals and share this certification as needed to return to work,
school, travel, etc. We can also certify people who have tested negative for the
virus. These people can be placed into jobs that are safe for them and the
people around them. This distinction will help to quickly identify who needs the
vaccine and who does not.
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Gus Downing joins industry
leaders to discuss current crime data, how COVID-19 is changing
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 Checkpoint's RFID Retail Solutions Include Security, Loss Prevention
Carl Rysdon, VP of RFID Solutions,
recaps the various uses for Checkpoint's
RFID in retail settings.
 LPF
Announces Kaseware as Newest Bachelor Partner
The
Loss Prevention Foundation (LPF) announces its newest Bachelor Level Partner,
Kaseware. The Bachelor
level partnership allows Kaseware to provide LPQ and LPC certification course
scholarships, as well as LPF memberships, to loss prevention industry
professionals. Founded by the same team who built the FBI’s investigative
case management system, Kaseware merges investigation management, case
management, link-analysis and open source intelligence into one intuitive
solution.
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Coronavirus Update: April
23
US:
Over
866K
Cases - 49K Dead - 85K Recovered
Worldwide:
Over 2.7M Cases - 188K Dead - 738K Recovered
U.S. Law Enforcement Deaths |
NYPD Deaths: 31
Private Industry Security Guard Deaths: 63
New Retail Layoffs & Furloughs
Footlocker furloughs "majority" of store employees in the U.S. and Canada
Hudson reducing "majority" of workforce through furloughs and layoffs
Flu Shot Becomes Critical This Year For Everyone
CDC Director Clarifies Concerns Over Potential Second Wave Of Coronavirus
 The
head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday
clarified
comments he made to The Washington Post earlier this week about a potential
second wave of the
coronavirus later this year.
“I didn’t say that this was going to be worse, I said it was going to be more
difficult and potentially complicated because we’ll have flu and coronavirus
circulating at the same time,” CDC Director Robert Redfield said during
Wednesday’s White House briefing.
“What he was trying to say was this: Everyone, get your
flu shot. The flu comes back in the fall. Be smart, American people.”
huffpost.com
FEMA Publishes Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Addressing PPE Needs in
Non-Healthcare Setting
PPE's three pillars of practice: reduce, reuse and repurpose
This guidance summarizes how organizations should consider and manage their
personal protective equipment (PPE) needs while ensuring the protection of
workers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic response. All industries
should immediately implement strategies to preserve existing supplies of PPE and
find alternative work methods to address shortfalls.
fema.gov
1st of Its Kind; Retail
Industry-Wide
Safer Workspaces Guide
Kroger's Safer Workspaces:
Sharing What We’ve Learned: A Blueprint for Businesses
Now More Than Ever, Purpose Matters
 Kroger has issued a "Blueprint
for Business" designed as a guide for grocers, restaurants, foodservice
companies and others for creating safer workspaces during the coronavirus
outbreak and shaping plans as much of the idled economy starts to reopen in the
coming weeks. "We are sharing what we've learned to help businesses begin to
reopen safely and in sync with their respective state plans," Kroger CEO Rodney
McMullen said of the guide, which also includes input from business leaders in
such places as Italy and China, which weathered the worst of the pandemic ahead
of the US.
We will continue to add new information to the Blueprint in the coming
days and weeks, so when the timing is right for businesses to safely reopen,
we’re all prepared to keep our communities safe and supported, together.
This first installment of Sharing What We’ve Learned: A Blueprint for Businesses
includes a 17-page PDF of recommendations, insights, best practices and
downloadable
creative assets to help businesses navigate the next phase of this
unprecedented pandemic. We will continue to update the Blueprint in the coming
days and weeks, providing additional resources, tools and templates for other
industries to leverage.
thekrogerco.com
progressivegrocer.com
News Poll: Coronavirus severely affecting security industry
Security Systems News (Integrators & Alarm Co's) April Poll of Readers
Final results are in for this month’s news poll showing that companies
are being severely affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
In fact, an overwhelming 84 percent of respondents say they are being
affected financially because of the coronavirus, with 46 percent saying,
“Yes, greatly,” and another 38 percent saying, “somewhat,” with only 16 percent
saying they are not being affected at all.
“Incoming calls for new systems and service calls have dropped off greatly,”
said one respondent. Another noted: “Have had cancellations of new
installations as well as cancellation of monitored accounts because of job
losses.”
“Only mission critical businesses are open and only for emergency
repairs/maintenance,” added another respondent. “All other projects are on
hold.”
Looking directly at the supply chain, 77 percent said it has been impacted by
the coronavirus, with just 23 percent not feeling the effects yet.
Asked when the economy will return to “business as usual,” respondents were
split, with 47 percent saying within the next 6 months, and the less optimistic
group — at 38 percent — saying within 18 months. Only 15 percent feel it will
take longer than 24 months to get back to normal.
securitysystemsnews.com
UK: Retail violence surges as a result of coronavirus, union reveals
More than 3,500 assaults per day committed since the coronavirus outbreak
began, new research reveals.
A survey by shopworker’s trade union Usdaw, based on 4,928 responses, shows that
since 14 March 62% were verbally abused, 29% were threatened, and 4% were
assaulted.
The union believes this is an underestimation because the survey analysis
assumes each respondent was only assaulted once and it was conducted in mainly
larger trade union organised stores, which tend to be safer than smaller non-unionised
workplaces.
Usdaw is calling for urgent action to tackle this growing problem and shadow
home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds is seeking assurances from government that
tackling these crimes is a policing priority throughout this crisis.
Paddy Lillis, Usdaw general secretary, said: “We are shocked that violence,
threats and abuse have doubled during this national emergency.
talkingretail.com
Dozens of grocery store workers have died. Here's what workers say their
employers did wrong
As the pandemic began to unfold, Reveal from
The Center for
Investigative Reporting reached out on social media to grocery store
employees across the country to find out whether they feel safe at work and
what their companies are doing to protect them. More than 600 responded.
With dozens of U.S. grocery workers now dead from COVID-19, Reveal has found
that major chains were slow to enact measures that could have protected
these front-line employees.
At least 41 deaths reported as of Sunday in the Washington Post. Two
were employees at the same Walmart in suburban Chicago; the family of one of
them, Wando Evans,
filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company for failing to warn Evans
about other employees who had symptoms of COVID-19 and for not enforcing social
distancing or providing protective gear. These claims echo complaints that
Walmart employees made to Reveal prior to Evans’ death.
Reveal asked each of the nation’s
10 largest grocery retailers – Walmart Inc., The Kroger Co., Albertsons
Cos. Inc., Ahold Delhaize USA, Publix Super Markets Inc., H-E-B, Meijer Inc.,
Wakefern Food Corp., Aldi Inc. and Whole Foods Market – to respond to the
concerns their employees raised. Some responded with press releases detailing
their latest policies, but only Kroger agreed to an interview.
orlandoweekly.com
‘Shocking and disheartening’: OSHA faces criticism for failing to protect
workers amid the coronavirus
“OSHA has been totally absent from the response,” said David Michaels, an
epidemiologist and public health professor at The George Washington University
who oversaw the agency during the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017. “It is
shocking and disheartening because OSHA should be out front leading the
federal efforts to protect workers.”
Under federal law, the agency has jurisdiction over most workplaces in the
country and can issue regulations and enforce them with inspections,
citations and legal action. In recent weeks, OSHA has issued guidance on how to
keep workers safe, such encouraging employees who are sick to stay home and
providing hand-washing stations. But the
guidance is “advisory in nature” and “creates no new legal obligations.”
The agency says it has “a number of existing enforcement tools it is using to
help address worker protections against COVID-19.” They include an overarching
authority to make sure companies provide workplaces “free from recognized
hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm
to his employees.”
The agency declined to say how many complaints related to the coronavirus
outbreak it has received or what enforcement actions it has taken.
“OSHA can and will use enforcement, as necessary, to ensure the protection of
workers exposed to COVID-19,” OSHA said in a statement provided to USA TODAY.
usatoday.com
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.
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.
Jim Schultz of the nonprofit Wisconsin Committee on Occupational Safety and
Health says his group has received between five and 15 inquiries or complaints
each week during the last month from workers of grocery stores, gas stations,
construction companies and other businesses.
When Illinois attorney Tony Kalogerakos asked OSHA to open an investigation
into the death of a Walmart employee, the agency said it couldn’t.
wausaupilotandreview.com
Remote Workers
Productivity
Employers Using Spyware
The Rise of Employee Surveillance Software
Why more organizations are
investing in tracking remote workers
 One effect of the new remote workforce is the significant increase in the
investment of surveillance software.
“Surveillance software, in particular, can monitor what remote workers do
on their devices by tracking keystrokes, regularly taking screenshots and
using other methods,” says Kaya Ismail on CMSWire.
“In some cases, businesses believe that just letting employees know they’re
being monitored has the psychological effect of keeping them productive,”
Ismail says. But the effect of these methods could backfire, Ismail warns.
However, using tools to actually spy on their digital movements or time spent in
front of a screen can encroach on employee privacy and cause distrust,”
he says.
An alternative approach to tracking digital movements is to set clear goals
and then give employees the autonomy to achieve them. That level of
responsibility could motivate them to do good work.
associationsnow.com
COVID-19 Prisoner Release
Update
As Reported 4/20: Dozens of NYC Rikers Inmates Release Rearrested
Releasing a lot of ORC Repeat Offenders
At least 50 of the
1,500 inmates cut loose amid fears of the spread of COVID-19 behind bars in
recent weeks have already landed back in jail — and in some cases were set
free yet again. Some 300 of them face violent felony charges.
 The
re-offenders — just over 3 percent of those released — include a Rikers
Island inmate initially jailed for allegedly setting his girlfriend’s door on
fire and choking her mother, who was released early only to return to the Bronx
apartment and allegedly threaten to kill the whole family.
Another, who was serving a 60-day sentence for theft, was charged with
burglarizing Queens’ Singh Farm grocery store to the tune of more than $9,000
three weeks after his early release.
Among the city’s worst repeat offenders is Darryl Naser, 25, who was
rearrested five times in April alone after being released March 27, records
show. Naser, who police describe as a “transit recidivist,” was first jailed on
charges of grand larceny and possession of stolen credit cards before his
coronavirus-related release. He was arrested again April 1 on a burglary
charge, and on April 4, April 6 and April 8 on drug possession charges.
He was released without bail each time, as he was after he was picked up yet
again at the Herald Square subway station on Friday and charged with
third-degree criminal possession of stolen property, court records show.
Police said he was caught stealing a purse.
Charles Abbriano, a 53-year-old Staten Island man with a history of low-level
crimes, was hit with a one-year sentence in January for several theft cases.
He was released early on March 25. The next week, Abbriano was pinched for
petty larceny and released — only to be picked up again on April 9 for
allegedly trying to steal a packed furniture truck with three other men in
Dongan Hills, records show.
nypost.com
2 Men Freed From Jail by California Coronavirus Order Rearrested
Others have been rearrested on accusations ranging from indecent exposure
to burglary.
Monmouth County, NJ, Released Prisoner Rearrested for Shoplifting & Theft
Florida Inmate Released Rearrested for Murder
Louisville, KY., Released prisoner rearrested for murder
Bureau of Justice Statistics: 2018 Update on Prisoner Recidivism:
A 9-Year Follow-Up Period (2005-2014)
68% of released prisoners are arrested within 3 yrs., 79% within 6 yrs.,
83% within 9 yrs.
• The 401,288 state prisoners released in 2005 had
1,994,000 arrests during the 9-year period (2014), an average of 5 arrests per
released prisoner. Sixty percent of these arrests occurred during years 4
through 9.
bjs.gov
Revise Policies to Facilitate Return to Work
Before employees start returning to work onsite, employers need to define the
new normal by creating or revising policies to address a range of critical
workplace issues, including employee relations and benefits.
Social distancing may now be a company mandate, for example, rather than
a suggestion, while meeting rooms may have capacity limits, and the checking
of employees' temperatures when they arrive each day may be required.
"Employers who communicate with their workforce and act in ways that demonstrate
genuine concern for employee health and safety will probably see reduced risk
of worker illness or further outbreak and increased productivity as the
workplace phases back to required output," said Mark Terman, an attorney with
Faegre Drinker in Los Angeles.
Employee Relations: Keep Up Communications
shrm.org
GameStop cuts wages and offers the choice of being furloughed
Reopening stores in Georgia and South Carolina, with two-thirds open for
curbside pickup.
Gap Didn't Pay April's $115M Rent Bills
Sycamore Partners Asks Court to Get Out of Victoria's Secret Deal
Texas Retailers Gear Up for Curbside Pickup Next Week
Rite Aid Expands Covid-19 On-Site Testing: 24 Locations Across 8 States
NYPD: 1,425 uniformed + 367 civilian members out sick with coronavirus; 2,763
have recovered
Jewelers Are Closed, but Burglars Are Still Active, JSA Says
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Microsoft Proposes Privacy Controls for COVID-19 Contact Tracking, Tracing
As governments broaden use of digital technologies to stem pandemic, sensitive
health and location data need to be protected, company says.
Microsoft:
Preserving privacy while addressing COVID-19
Microsoft this week proposed a series of privacy measures that governments,
public health authorities, industry stakeholders, and others should consider
amid efforts to use new technologies for tracking people infected with the
COVID-19 virus and for tracing people with whom they have come into contact.
The proposed measures include the need for organizations participating in these
efforts to get meaningful consent from people before collecting or using their
data; to have controls for protecting the data; and to ensure that any data that
is collected is purely for public health purposes.
Microsoft also wants to give users control over where their data is stored and
how it is shared. In addition, the company advocates minimal data collection and
deletion of all data once the emergency has passed.
Facebook, Google, and Apple all have similar initiatives to help various
government, healthcare, and other entities battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
Google and Apple, for instance, are building support into their respective
mobile operating systems for Bluetooth-based contact tracing apps that will
allow government healthcare authorities to alert mobile device users if they
have been exposed to someone with COVID-19.
darkreading.com
New Platform Collects COVID-19 Threat Intelligence
Pandemic-Related Threat Feed Designed to Assist Efforts to Mitigate Risks
 A
group of companies, including Cloudflare and GitHub, are joining with 3,000
volunteers to collect pandemic-related threat intelligence. The group, called
the COVID-19
Cyber Threat Coalition, hopes that its threat intelligence platform will
help thwart cybercriminals' efforts to take advantage of the pandemic.
The platform is designed to supplement the existing defensive structures with a
public threat feed, Espinosa says. It's already ingesting 100 million indicators
of compromise a day.
In this video interview with Information Security Media Group, Espinosa
discusses:
• What types of threats enterprises are facing as
cybercriminals try to take advantage of the pandemic;
• What types of threat intelligence the COVID-19
Cyber Threat Coalition is collecting;
• How the healthcare industry is continuing to get
hit by ransomware.
Espinosa, who is CEO of
Security Fanatics,
is spokesperson for the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition. He's the co-author of
the cybersecurity book "Easy
Prey", a TEDx speaker and host of The Deep Dive, a syndicated radio show.
govinfosecurity.com
‘We were made for this’: How Slack became king of the remote-work world
The workplace-productivity company became essential amid the coronavirus
crisis, and in the process, rediscovered itself.
Slack made it possible for many of them to have conversations, ask questions,
share information, make decisions. The platform combines the superficial
simplicity of smartphone text messaging with the ability to separate and
chronicle streams of workplace communication in a way that reproduces the
culture of the open-plan office. The strings of messages are democratic,
energizing, and also sometimes distracting. In the pandemic, Slack let the
people who could keep working, keep working.
As business swerved to avoid the coronavirus, it was turning to Slack for
help.
Before the pandemic, Slack counted 65 of the 100 largest public companies in the
U.S. as customers, along with The Washington Post and The New York Times, and a
dozen agencies of the American government (including the State Department and,
reportedly, the National Security Agency). Slack had defined this new form of
workplace communication and had grown in less than seven years to more than
110,000 paying customers and $630 million in annual revenue.
fastcompany.com
NSA shares list of vulnerabilities commonly exploited to plant web shells
NSA and ASD issue joint advisory on detecting and dealing with web shells
 The
US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)
have published a security advisory this week warning companies to search
web-facing and internal servers for common web shells.
Web shells are one of today's most popular forms of malware. The term "web
shell" refers to a malicious program or script that's installed on a hacked
server.
Web shells provide a visual interface that hackers can use to interact with the
hacked server and its filesystem. Most web shells come with features to let
hackers rename, copy, move, edit, or upload new files on a server. They can also
be used to change file and directory permissions, or archive and download
(steal) data from the server.
In a report published in February this year, Microsoft said it detects
around 77,000 active web shells on a daily basis, making this web shells one
of today's most prevalent malware types.
The two agencies have now published a joint 17-page report [PDF]
that contains tools to help system administrators detect and deal with these
types of threats. The advisory includes:
Some of the tools mentioned in the advisory are also available
on
the NSA's GitHub profile.
zdnet.com
New NIST Cybersecurity White Paper:
Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities by Adopting a Secure Software
Development Framework (SSDF)
 The
whitepaper recommends a core set of high-level secure software development
practices - called a secure software development framework (SSDF) - to be added
to each software development life cycle (SDLC) implementation. The paper
facilitates communications about secure software development practices amongst
business owners, software developers, and cybersecurity professionals within an
organization. Following these practices should help software producers reduce
the number of vulnerabilities in released software, mitigate the potential
impact of the exploitation of undetected or unaddressed vulnerabilities, and
address the root causes of vulnerabilities to prevent future recurrences.
Software consumers can reuse and adapt the practices in their software
acquisition processes.
Read Here
Zoom Hits Milestone on 90-day Security Plan, Releases Zoom 5.0
Robust Security Enhancements Include Support for AES 256-Bit GCM
Encryption
Legions of cybersecurity volunteers rally to protect hospitals during COVID-19
crisis
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How COVID-19 is Influencing Cannabis Expansion
The cannabis industry is considered one of the fastest growing industries in the
United States and has seen a recent development of new facilities and an
expansion of state programs. However, many companies with plans to build new
facilities or apply for a license this year have had to put their plans on
hold due to the
Coronavirus.
Investors have pulled or delayed funds to open new facilities and facilities
currently in operation have had to change their operating procedures
temporarily. States are having to prioritize what is important right now, which
for some, is not voting on the legalization of recreational or medicinal
cannabis or expanding existing programs.
Is cannabis access likely to expand?
Some believe that states that have not already, will now consider legalizing
medicinal or recreational cannabis in hope of helping the struggling economy.
Since cannabis has assisted states by increasing the number of jobs and
increasing cash flow, this may be an option that states seek post COVID. A study
by New Frontier Data also states that by “recognizing fully legal cannabis at a
federal level, it could create 1.6 million jobs and contribute $128.8 billion to
federal tax coffers.”
Read more
The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Cannabis Business Insurance
For an industry that employs more than 240,000 workers in 33 states—and
generated $1.9 billion in state and local tax revenue in 2019—concern is
merited. The question is, will insurance play any role in trying to help
cannabis retailers and cultivators weather the economic storm? The answer is
complicated.
Marijuana and insurance before the pandemic
Prior to the Coronavirus pandemic, the need for a comprehensive approach to
insuring various aspects of the marijuana industry was becoming increasingly
critical for everyone from growers to dispensary owners, and there were signs
that the insurance industry was starting to pay attention.
However, according to NCRMA chairman Rocco Petrilli, the relationship between
most cannabis businesses and insurance companies—and with insurance
generally—was secondary for an emerging industry more focused on other
critical areas such as startup operations, funding, licensing, regulations, and
growth.
“It’s impossible to say what things are going to look like when we get through
this and come out on the other side,” says Gilligan. “The economy is getting hit
hard—hopefully we recover quickly. Some industries will likely never be the
same. Some won’t survive. Others will thrive…and I’m optimistic that state
and local governments will pave the way for the insurance industry to cover
cannabis businesses moving forward.”
cannabisbusinessexecutive.com
Las Vegas police seize $8.6 million worth of marijuana at illegal grow
house
 Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said they found thousands of marijuana
plants worth more than $8 million at a warehouse in the northeast valley
Wednesday. Police said the SWAT team located the warehouse in the 4600
block of Judson Ave., near Carey Ave. and Lamb Blvd, on April 15. While
serving a warrant, LVMPD Narcotics located approximately 5,700
marijuana plants, weighing approximately 868 lbs. LVMPD estimated
the street value of the marijuana at $8.6 million.
fox5vegas.com
Coronavirus gave cannabis companies a big bump in sales
Managing employer risk in the age of the coronavirus
Hemp CBD: Even Without FDA Regulations, Class Action Suits May Go Forward
The highest-paying jobs in the cannabis industry
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Forter publishes report on Covid-19 impact on fraud and consumer behaviour
Frausters are exploiting confusion and
uncertainty, targeting increasing number of people working & shopping from home
 As
the pandemic sweeps across the globe, government responses have included
enforced social distancing and financial support to beleaguered economies.
Merchants who sell non-essential goods have responded by closing physical
stores, and in some regions also their online operations. Consumers have begun
to shift their purchases, even those of essential items such as groceries,
online.
Increased fraud activity
As people adjust to working from home, Forter sees a marked increase in social
engineering fraud. These types of frauds are associated with fake emails
purporting to be from HR and corporate addresses. Here fraudsters invite people
to click for more information, instead they take victims to malicious sites.
With a shift to online shopping in Apparel and Accessories, Forter sees
an increase in gift card purchases. While a higher number of legitimate buyers
usually means that fraud rates drop, gift card fraud rates have not.
Fraudsters have noticed an increased demand of the completely virtual
merchandise that is easy to monetise.
Embracing eCommerce
“With more consumers buying online, we expect merchants who hadn’t considered
eCommerce are now trying it,” continued Reitblat. “Merchants that had already
adopted eCommerce struggle to meet this increase in demand. Working
collaboratively from home and hiring to meet the volume create obstacles for
those who manually review transactions for fraud.”
Enterprise times: What this means for business?
Last year, overall fraud attacks increased by 19% across a global scale.
Security analysts expect this trend to intensify as retailers address the impact
of a global pandemic. This is an interesting report which should support any
enterprise face the shifting eCommerce landscape. This is particularly the case
as both consumer behaviour and online frauds evolve in the current environment.
enterprisetimes.co.uk
Coronavirus Lockdowns Lead to Surge in Digital Piracy
Business is booming for illegal websites hosting pirated copies since
stay-at-home orders went into effect in many countries during March. Visits by
U.S. and U.K. residents jumped about 31% from February to March. Numbers from
residents of Germany, Portugal, Spain and India were comparable, while Italy saw
the largest jump, at over 50%.
The uptick from U.S. users in March meant the 19,000 website addresses in the
company’s database drew 137 million page views that month.
“Organized crime groups have increased their marketing [around coronavirus].”
The top pirate sites in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain served
50% more ads to users in the first quarter compared with the previous quarter.
wsj.com
Senior Job:
HelloFresh Posted Associate Director, Safety & LP in Grand Praire, TX
The Environmental Health and Safety team is seeking an experienced
Associate Director of Safety & Loss Prevention to support its corporate
safety, environmental compliance, security programs. In this position, you will
assist the Director of Safety & Security in managing multiple projects
and multiple sites, inclusive of distribution center safety, corporate safety,
building security, loss prevention design, site visits, investigations, and
project management, as well as drive the safety culture and compliance in
multiple sites, on-board and train site Safety & Loss Prevention Managers and
conduct audits as necessary.
indeed.com
*Position not posted on company website.
America's most popular meal kit most 5-Star-Reviews. HelloFresh has offices on 3
continents in 9 different countries. Expected revenue of between approx. $741.9M
U.S. to $768.9M. With results coming May 5th. COVID-19 impact: They have started
to see a further meaningful acceleration since the latter half of March 2020,
driven by increased demand due to the heightened public focus on the evolving
Covid-19 pandemic.
hellofreshgroup.com
Target's April Digital Sales Up 275%
Amazon could see post-pandemic food delivery boost
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Visalia, CA: Large group busted for meat market theft after leaving 'trail of
meat' behind
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large group of adults and minors were arrested after allegedly stealing meat
from a meat market in Visalia, California. Around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Visalia
police officers responded to a burglary at the Jalisco Meat Market. When
officers arrived, they detained one adult and a boy under the age of 18, leaving
the business. Officers followed a trail of meat to a nearby apartment, where
they found more people that were involved. Detectives executed a search warrant
at the home and found six adults and five minors connected to the burglary.
Overall, 13 people were arrested for the crime. The subjects were booked on
charges related to burglary, burglary during a stat of an emergency/looting,
providing false information to a police officer, resisting arrest and warrants.
komonews.com
Clarksville, TN: Police searching for 3 men linked to string of Lowe's robberies
in mid-state
 Clarksville
Police are seeking assistance locating three men believed to be involved in
several thefts at numerous Lowe's stores in the mid-state area. Bubbacar M.
Camara, 24, has a robbery warrant on file stemming from an incident that
occurred at the Lowe's on Madison Street around 6:00 a.m. on March 13, according
to a Clarksville Police Department press release. Camara and his associates,
Baha Hussam Abuhadba, and an unidentified white male, are also believed to be
involved in several thefts from numerous Lowe's stores all over the mid-state.
fox17.com
Durham, NC: Man tried stealing drills from Home Depot, threatened security
officer with knife
Officers responded to a robbery call at around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Home
Depot. When they arrived at the store, they were told that a man had put four
power drills in his shopping cart and then tried leaving the store without
paying. According to police, the suspect, identified as 47-year-old Tysean Urain
Lunceford, got into a struggle with a loss prevention officer at the store when
the officer approached Lunceford about the drills. During the struggle, the cart
flipped over and Lunceford pulled a knife on the officer and “shoved it toward
him several times,” witnesses told police. The loss prevention officer was not
injured in the scuffle.
cbs17.com
Hopewell, NY: Two Repeat-Offenders charged with Burglary / Larceny for $370
Walmart theft
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Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Napa, CA: Report Of Man With Knife In Target Draws Police Response
A situation Wednesday afternoon involving a man with a knife inside a Napa
Target store drew a response from the Napa Police Department. Officers responded
to Target, at 12:49 p.m. to reports about a man wearing a bandanna across his
face who was waving two knives and stumbling around, according to Napa police
Lt. Chase Haag. The suspect was trying to open a box of knives with another
knife and threatened store security while waving a knife prior to police
arrival, according to a Napa Police statement posted to social media. "He was
being monitored by loss prevention while officers were en route," Haag said. To
defuse the situation and keep shoppers and store employees safe, officers
responded with "less-than lethal" beanbag devices, as well as TASERs and guns,
according to Napa PD.
patch.com
Trio Arrested For Burglary After Crashing SUV Through Long Island Store
A Suffolk County Police sergeant spotted a 2003 Chevrolet Tahoe with a broken
headlight in Deer Park shortly after 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22,
prompting a traffic stop. During the subsequent stop, the sergeant spotted glass
on the rear bumper on the SUV, multiple cartons of cigarettes, and boxes of vape
pens inside the vehicle, police said. According to police, while speaking with
the driver, a radio transmission was made regarding a burglary at Smoke Hub, on
Bay Shore Road in Deer Park.
dailyvoice.com
Salt Lake City, UT: How cops caught Las Vegas man who allegedly posed as FBI
agent to rob St. George Jewelry store
 Two
women were working at family-owned Seven Oaks Fine Jewelers on Sept. 28, 2019,
when a man wearing a straw cowboy hat, black jacket with “FBI” on the back, and
a metal FBI badge on a lanyard around his neck walked in. He was carrying a
black portfolio, handcuffs and a handheld radio. He also had a handgun in a
holster on his right hip, according to the criminal complaint in U.S. District
Court.
According to the complaint, the man began to leave, but turned toward a display
case and started asking questions about the jewelry. “Came in looking for a
suspect, might be leaving with an engagement ring,” he told the employees. The
two employees, one behind the counter and one a few feet from the man, displayed
several jewelry items for him. At one point, he told the employee standing near
him to get behind the counter with the other employee and pulled out a black
handgun, according to the complaint.
deseret.com
Fort Walton Beach, FL: Kids help catch Walmart shoplifter
 Mary
Thompson, ran from loss prevention officers at the store after they tried to
stop her. She left the store, jumped fences and hid in yards to avoid Okaloosa
County Sheriff ‘s Deputies, who responded to a call about the theft. She was
eventually found hiding in the backyard of a home, after four children told
deputies where to find her, OCSO said. “She apparently asked the youngsters to
be quiet, but they stepped up and did the right thing, earning Jr. Deputy
Badges! Well done and thank you!,” according to a Facebook post by OCSO.
nwfdailynews.com
Corpus Christi, TX: Four men identified in early morning Burlington Store
break-in
Pawtucket, RI: Police seek ID of suspect in grocery store robbery
Cape Coral, FL: Man barricades himself inside Circle K
Jefferson, GA: Family Dollar Employee arrested for theft of $1,000 of
merchandise
Fairlea, WV: Deputies need help finding CVS shoplifting suspect in Greenbrier
County
Bakersfield, CA: BPD looking for man wanted for shoplifting from Lowe’s store
UK: Shoplifters On What They're Stealing Now All the Shops Are Closed
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C-Store – Willmar, MN
- Burglary
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C-Store - Braselton,
GA – Burglary
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C-Store – Cape Coral,
FL – Burglary
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C-Store – Benton, AR –
Robbery
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C-Store - Washington
County, TX – Armed Robbery
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C-Store – Boston, MA –
Armed Robbery
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Clothing – Visalia, CA
– Burglary
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Dollar General –
Baltimore, MD – Armed Robbery
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Dollar Tree – Norfolk,
VA – Armed Robbery
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Grocery – Visalia, CA
– Burglary
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Guns – Essex, MD –
Burglary
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Guns – Tallahassee, FL
– Burglary
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Hardware – Durham, NC
– Armed Robbery / assault on LP
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Liquor – Oxnard, CA –
Armed Robbery
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Pawn – Live Oak, FL –
Armed Robbery / Owner wounded
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Restaurant –
Baltimore, MD – Armed Robbery McDonald’s)
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Restaurant – Pueblo,
CO - Armed Robbery (Domino’s)
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Vape – Suffolk County,
NY – Burglary
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Walmart – North East,
MD – Armed Robbery
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Walmart – Cedar Park,
TX – Armed Robbery (Bank inside)
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• 12 robberies
• 8 burglaries
• 0 shootings
• 0 killed |
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