Articles Tagged with ''theft prevention''

Found more often at ATMs and gas station checkouts, supermarkets in California discovered skimmers at self-checkout terminals. They delayed notifying customers because they thought they had prevented a security breach but more than a hundred customers reported thefts.

The alleged scam targeted customers who often paid with American Express Black cards and other high-limit credit cards.

As skimming grows, the good news is that two men were arrested November 1 on charges of conspiring to produce, use, or traffic in one or more counterfeit devices, following a lengthy U.S. Secret Service investigation.

Ranchers and farmers are increasingly reporting animals and produce being stolen. In one rare case, the thief was luckily caught.

At least two people have been pictured installing a skimming device at an Orlando ATM days ago. It is the host city for the upcoming ASIS International event soon.

Construction and oil field equipment recovered while copper theft harms utilities.

It happened last year at ASIS, now again this year at ISCW. Theft at a security industry trade show!

According to the FBI's Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June, 2010, the nation saw a 6.2 percent decrease in the number of reported violent crimes and a 2.8 percent decrease in the number of reported property crimes compared to data for the same time frame during 2009.

With the WikiLeaks affair and broader hacking incidents related to it highlighting the potential for disruption of the Internet, Gallup's 2010 crime survey finds that computer-related crime is a growing problem for average Americans.