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Special agent to National Insurance Crime Bureau: "anecdotally the economic recession i... - 0 views

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Fraud Insurance Recession FBI Economics

shared by sandy ingram on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • the FBI is aligning a lot more investigators to look into actual economic fraud investigations versus insurance fraud investigations.
  • "Fraud bureaus are telling us this, we're hearing it from the state fire marshals, and we're hearing about it anecdotally through news stories. It's clear that as the economy has gone down, the opportunity to commit fraud, to recover monies they think they need, has increased."
  • And with anywhere from $80 billion to $200 billion lost to fraud each year, affecting all lines of the insurance business — health, property, casualty, life and disability — it's no wonder that states are concerned with combating it.
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  • NICB has seen a "pretty significant' trend in medical identity theft and provider fraud, according to McKee. This is when someone steals a person's identity, and medical and insurance information, then submits fraudulent bills to the insurance company for treatment the person did not receive. The check goes back to the fraudulent company, and the person is unaware that his or her identity was stolen or is being used for fraud, he explained.
  • sandy ingram on 09 Apr 09
     
    Does a bad economy increase crime? Analysts have debated that question for years, according to Mike McKee, senior special agent for the National Insurance Crime Bureau. While it's too soon for statistics to confirm whether recent events like the mortgage meltdown and an increase in unemployment truly lead consumers to commit more crimes, McKee said at least anecdotally the economic recession is affecting insurance fraud.
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Outgunned: How Security Tech Is Failing Us -- InformationWeek - 0 views

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Security Privacy compliance cybersecurity Best Practice

shared by sandy ingram on 11 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Thing is, the pitch is less believable these days, and the atmosphere is becoming downright hostile. We face more and larger breaches, increased costs, more advanced adversaries, and a growing number of public control failures.
  • -U.S. businesses continue to hemorrhage credit card numbers and personally identifiable information. The tab for the Heartland Payment Systems breach, which compromised 130 million card numbers, is reportedly at $144 million and counting. The Stuxnet worm, a cunning and highly targeted piece of cyberweaponry, just left a trail of tens of thousands of infected PCs. Earlier this month, the FBI announced the arrest of individuals who used the Zeus Trojan to pilfer $70 million from U.S. banks. Zeus is in year three of its reign of terror, impervious to law enforcement, government agencies, and the sophisticated information security teams of the largest financial services firms on the planet.
  • sandy ingram on 11 Oct 10
     
    Information security professionals face mounting threats, hoping some mix of technology, education, and hard work will keep their companies and organizations safe. But lately, the specter of failure is looming larger. "Pay no attention to the exploit behind the curtain" is the message from product vendors as they roll out the next iteration of their all-powerful, dynamically updating, self-defending, threat-intelligent, risk-mitigating, compliance-ensuring, nth-generation security technologies. Just pony up the money and the manpower and you'll be safe from what goes bump in the night.
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