Tag: data breaches
EyeOnLP: Bitcoin Transactions—Are They The Future of Retail?
When it comes to security, is Bitcoin any more secure than our current methods of payment? According to Adam Smith at Bi-Lo Holdings, Bitcoin is very secure--if handled correctly.
Target Corp. Reaches New Settlement Over 2013 Data Breach
Target Corp. has agreed to pay more than $39 million to resolve class-action claims from financial lenders that suffered losses after the company’s massive...
Things to Consider
This column will discuss a series of broad topics of things to consider as we face the rapidly changing future of retail loss prevention....
LP 101: Data Protection and Privacy
Building a successful career in loss prevention has always been predicated on the commitment to professional growth and development. Working in a business as...
T-Mobile’s Data Breach Exposes Consumer Information
Last week, consumer credit monitoring firm Experian admitted to a recent data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 15 million T-Mobile US...
Retailers Responsible for Mag Stripe Credit Card Fraud
As of October 1, all U.S. retailers are expected to have the new, more secure chip card payment terminals installed at their checkout counters....
Post-EMV Deadline, Retailers Bear Responsibility for Magnetic Stripe Credit Card Fraud
As of October 1, all U.S. retailers are expected to have the new, more secure chip card payment terminals installed at their checkout counters....
LPRC Members Converge on Seattle to Tour Amazon and Microsoft
A contingent of twenty-five members of the Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC), representing fifteen different retailers, spent two days in early August touring one...
Research Reveals Great Disconnect Between Loss Prevention, IT and Other Business Units in Retail
IHL Group study investigates impact as retail LP technologies become IP-enabled and IT and other business units leverage for functions beyond traditional LP; Retailers with greater than $1B in revenue spend 8.3 percent of IT budget on LP priorities other than PCI and data breach protection
Cyber Threat Predictions for 2015
2014 was undoubtedly the year of the data breach in retail. As an encore to the massive Target customer credit and debit card hack...