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Galleon scandal: just the beginning?
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...ffington Post that maybe insider trading shouldn't even be illegal, claiming that it would expose fraud earlier, it would put more information out in the market and that companies will become more t...
Seen that? - A Question Of Ethics
in Bizinformer, on November 6, 2009
...ause she wants the truth - she is looking for words of affirmation. By asking a question, we become vulnerable [...] Read More 7 Questions to Balance Ethics and Speed at Biz...
Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
...ld crash. As Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff told Gordon, it smells like a fraud and should be prosecuted. "The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested in...
Seen that? - Challenges of RFID Industry (1)
in Supplychainer, on November 5, 2009
...Industry (1) at Supplychainer Today Supply Chains are vulnerable to security threats and the uncertainties associated with them. A lot of experts believe ...
Swine flu fraud
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
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It was just a matter of time. The US Food and Drug Administration has published a list of fraudulent swine flu products purporting to clean up the disease now popping up on websites. Read th...
Do the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Outweigh the Benefits?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 19, 2009
... at best.
Truth be told, in-house processes that go unwatched and unmanaged are often sources of fraud. However, management usually does watch (at least at some level), reducing the risks posed by...
Seen that? - Louisiana Town Finally Gets Phone Service
in The Wired Home Weblog, on October 19, 2009
... number can be traced back revealing a home address and social security number. This makes a person vulnerable to identity theft and [...] Read More Get a Free Phone Number for Your Busi...
Hedge funds lied to investors
in Sox First, on October 15, 2009
...n you read this, you can then understand how people like Bernard Madoff could get away with their fraud for so many years with his hedge fund. Which raises the obvious question: how many more Madoffs ...
Seen that? - Email Sucks
in I got Spam?!, on October 11, 2009
Email Sucks at I got Spam?! I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM emai...
Bribery charges turn personal
in Sox First, on October 9, 2009
...udi Arabia, Europe and Africa. Or will the Justice Department put pressure on Britain's Serious Fraud Office to do the same and target the individuals? ...
Organized crime, forests and climate change
in Sox First, on October 8, 2009
...quot;Organized crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon market." So what sort of fraud would it be? The most obvious would be claiming credits for forests that don't exist. Ther...
Next world war could be in cyberspace
in Sox First, on October 7, 2009
...ations Union , according to this report . ITU secretary general Hamadoun Toure says countries are vulnerable because are now so dependent on technology for commerce, finance and food distribution. &...
Seen that? - Botnet hacker pleads guilty
in I got Spam?!, on October 2, 2009
... lock down the system-the previous [...] Read More Georgia Tech: Mobile Phones Highly Vulnerable to Hackers at The Wireless Weblog Photo cou...
Should ratings agencies go the way of Arthur Andersen?
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...n in 2002 after authorities learned that its auditors had shredded documents related to Enron's fraudulent schemes and were probably complicit in those practices. Even though the firm's felony...
Torvalds Calls Linux 'Bloated'
in HackITLinux, on September 24, 2009
...d scary now,' according to Torvalds."
"It is interesting to see how open source is vulnerable to the same problems associated with bloat in the same way that commercial projects are,&q...
Elderly turn to bank robbery in recession
in Sox First, on September 20, 2009
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Back in July, I did a blog entry looking at hiow bank robberies, fraud and other crimes were booming because of the recession. Now we have further evidence of the recession's impact with ...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...e financial system recovers, the government plans to phase out these backstops - leaving banks more vulnerable to big bets that go bad. One investment gaining popularity is a direct descendant of the ...
BAE brought to justice (finally)
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...Saudi Arabian government. As I pointed out here , the uproar broke out after Britain's Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation into the alleged bribery allegations. Now, it looks like the...
Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...ken but negligently performed." Still, to cover itself the SEC is now looking at setting up a fraud college to help its officials detect financial shenanigans, reports Bloomberg . As if the stu...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-09-06
...over Web apps
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Malware threat grows: is the Internet burning?
in Sox First, on September 1, 2009
... its payload and its intent. Adobe products, Twitter, Tumblr and Jaiku are said to be particularly vulnerable for being hijacked and being turned into malware vehicles. In its report , the Microsof...
UBS whistleblower jailed
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
... banker Bradley Birkenfeld was this week sentenced to three years four months for conspiring to defraud the US by helping clients to cheat taxes. Let's forget the fact that Birkenfeld was actua...
Chateau climate change
in Sox First, on August 14, 2009
...will destroy the French wine industry. In a piece published in Le Monde, they warn that wine is now vulnerable. Climate change is rendering our vineyards ever more vulnerable."Summer heat waves, ...
Madoff's right hand man pleads guilty: who's next?
in Sox First, on August 12, 2009
...hich raises the obvious question: who's next? How could his wife Ruth Madoff not know about the fraud? And what about the fund managers who sent him money from investors?...
No bail for Black
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
... have to hand it to Conrad Black. Two years after he sentenced to six-plus years in the slammer for fraud, he has still been seeking bail pending an appeal. If anyone told he had a snowflake's cha...
Climate change junket for Congress
in Sox First, on August 10, 2009
Diving on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, waking up in a plush hotel in Waikiki and spending New Years Eve in Christchurch watching fire works. All part of the job for members of Congress who went on a fact finding mission to investigate climate change. According to The Wall Street Journa...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
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The big accounting fraud news this week was the Security and Exchange Commission announcing that conglomerate GE had cooked the books, boosting its earnings by $785 million and its revenues by ...
Sipera Systems Launches UC-Sec 100 Security Appliance
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 7, 2009
...rk and protection against VoIP and UC security vulnerabilities and zero day threats, including toll fraud, eavesdropping and data theft," writes eWeek's Nathan Eddy .
"Like all Sipera...
Goldman Sachs in the gun
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
... reports that the US Senate is probing Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank in relation to possible fraud connected to the market meltdown. The WSJ reports: "The congressional investigation appea...
First SOX clawback
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...fficers and chief executive officers to reimburse the company bonuses and stock profits following a fraud. The rationale behind the legislation is that they were running the company when misleading in...
Recession-fuelled crime wave
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...economy expected to contract by 4.2%. In recession-stricken Britain, the Daily Mail reports that fraud by company directors is up 313%. Petty theft has risen massive 25%, shoplifting 10% and drug o...
Should we do strategic planning for our supply chain?
in Supplychainer, on July 15, 2009
...o dealers. The issue is how they go about it. For example, the outsourcing decisions are especially vulnerable to the classic myopia of focusing on comparative labor costs. A proper analysis would loo...
Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-11
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Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
... you own a home in Los Angeles, watch out for the scammers. Your city leads the nation in mortgage fraud , according to the FBI's annual mortgage fraud review.
The FBI's Los Angeles field of...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
If you want to read a chilling story, try this one published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times. It details the devastating effects that loan-modification scammers can have on their victims.
The Times' story details the plight of a Hesperia, Calif., homeowner who thought she was working with ...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 1)
in Supplychainer, on July 1, 2009
...e continues with mentioning the fact that because of such uncertainty, many companies have ended up vulnerable and some of them going through bankruptcy or consolidation (acquisition by others). From ...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
... with it. "There may not be anyone who can improve on the scale and ingenuity of Madoff's fraud. However, it is a recurring theme in human nature that someone in the next decades will try to...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
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The global stimulus packages are likely to provide massive opportunities for fraud, according to a report from risk consultancy Kroll . According to the report, corruption could swipe about $500 ...
Beware of loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 22, 2009
As the number of housing foreclosures across the nation continue to rise, something else is on the upswing, too: loan-modification scams.
The scammers target homeowners who have fallen behind in their mortgage payments or those who are facing foreclosure. They promise to modify these homeowners'...
NFL Week 6
in End Zone Buzz, on June 19, 2009
...nd promised to appear in Texas to face burglary and like 7 counts of drug related charges involving fraud and delivery.
Ouch!
So I wonder... as a disgruntled fan, can I get a refund out of some of...
Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-17
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Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
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Bernard Madoff, who has pleaded guilty to 11 charges of fraud, money laudnering, perjury and theft, faces up to 150 years in jail. And his victims want exactly that! The New York Times reports ...
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
... the Australian Crime Commission that organized crime syndicates could cash in on the pandemic with fraud, robbery and a black market in bootleg medicine. The Commission warned: "Criminal groups ...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
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Mozilo was charged by securities regulators earlier this week with insider trading and regulatory fraud. You can read all about Mozilo's downfall in this Reuters story .
Mozilo is a cautionary...
Conrad Black's landmark case
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
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Conrad Black's appeal against his fraud conviction will have massive implications on the system, regardless of what the decision is. Black, as we know, was convicted two year ago of a a $6.1-m...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...d others? Did PwC leadership - US, global, and Indian- enable and perhaps promote complicity in the fraud called 'India's Enron' for the sake of their consulting business strategy? Did Sat...
Peak oil and lifestyles
in Sox First, on May 23, 2009
...of choices, from what car we drive to where we choose to go for vacation to which jobs will be more vulnerable. If Rubin is right, the world is likely to get a lot smaller and constrained....
How to introduce a carbon tax
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...normally requires damming rivers and those dams and reservoirs might endanger wildlife and might be vulnerable to catastrophic failure, unleashing devastating floods on those downstream. Indeed, this ...
Military joins climate change battle
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
...ty grid makes our domestic military installations, and their critical
infrastructure, unnecessarily vulnerable to incident, whether deliberate or accidental. "The market for fossil fuels will be...
Climate change and health
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...de (122 degrees Fahrenheit). "This warming is expected to have serious health implications for vulnerable groups such as elderly people with cardiovascular conditions," the report says. The...
Do boycotts work?
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
...anies with strong reputations are likely to resist whereas those with troubled reputations are more vulnerable. There is a simple lesson for companies: maintain and build your reputation. And for act...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
... they would not apply to technology would be disingenous. If anything, the tech sector is even more vulnerable to the phenomena than the manufacturing and service sectors.
The choice for American wor...
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 10, 2009
...ies and Exchange Commissions stuffed up big time with Bernard Madoff, letting him get away with his fraud for some time. It failed to do its job and protect investors. Now a Government Accountabilit...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-05-05
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Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...ard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings are being sued for negligence fraud and deceit and as Frank Partnoy, a professor at the San Diego School of Law and a former deriv...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
... accountability for the bailout funds being put up by US taxpayers. Clearly, the system is open to fraud and now we have the Los Angeles Times telling us of criminal probes into possible securities...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 11, 2009
...nce, and people start spending again. But William Black , Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention warns that this amounts to a cover up. In an interview with Bill Moyers , Black sa...
ATM Skimmers are High Tech Robbery
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 10, 2009
© *saxon*
I know about ATM skimmers, and in general I know they are a bad thing. What I didn't know is that their use across the globe and throughout the US is dramatically on the rise. If you aren't familiar with ATM skimmers, they are a ATM/credit card reader that fit over the card ...
Supermarket looting: a sign of things to come
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
...itain that recession related robberies are on the rise and other reports of a massive increase in fraud. With no sign of recovery, people are getting desperate. It's a trend that will continue ...
Maddoff's accountant: bring on the rest
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
... Exchange Commission charging Bernard Madoff's accountant David G. Friehling, with securities fraud, aiding and abetting investment adviser fraud, and four counts of filing false audit reports r...
Mortgage fraud and AIG
in Sox First, on March 17, 2009
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Mortgage fraud is on the rise, up 26% , and it's a serious problem. Fewer loans are being processed but there's more fraud, suggesting there is a real sickness in the system. It means peo...
Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
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So Bernard Madoff is now in jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges including securities fraud. And he has apologised to the investors he scammed, claiming he was "painfully aware" th...
Golf Rejoices as Woods Returns
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 26, 2009
...andedly propels the game of professional golf forward has returned.
And that one point exposes the vulnerable under-belly in the game today. Professional golf needs Tiger Woods and it needs him badly...
Tour Gets Burned Again
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 24, 2009
...s burst - an unpleasant characteristic often manifests, according to Socionomics: rampant cheating, fraud and financial exploitation.
Bernie Madoff is one human face we can put to that characterist...
Dubai bailout
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...nt support of companies in Dubai. As reported here , Moody's said Dubai was "particularly vulnerable" because its most important sectors - real estate, tourism, trade and financial serv...
The Stanford-Madoff connection
in Sox First, on February 22, 2009
..., a clear and worrying pattern is emerging. Allen Stanford and Bernard Madoff are the first two big frauds that have come out of this meltdown and they won't be the last. Furthermore, both cases r...
The banking crisis and Eastern Europe
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
... fall . The Financial Times reports that Moody's says Eastern Europe is looking increasingly vulnerable. According to the FT, Moody's warns of "continuous downward pressure on east Eur...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
...ng power and global warming are converging on the interplay of oil and US currency flows. The US is vulnerable to peak oil, and that will weaken the US dollar even further. Phillips, a former senior ...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...es and Exchange Commission had looked the other way and allowed Bernard Madoff to get away with his fraud. Now, the New York Post reports that bankers thought Madoff was a shyster but kept shtum. &...





