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Treasury Department Using Advanced Analytics to Help Detect, Prevent Money-Laundering

- Better data analysis of suspicious activity reports filed by financial institutions is expected to help law enforcement combat money laundering more efficiently.

Banking on Technology

- Two financial institutions used technology to improve the security of their systems and their customers’ financial assets.

Hackers Find a New Way to Make Maximum Cash Withdrawals

- Visa recently sent an alert to clients warning them that hackers are skipping the skimmers and targeting internal networks at banks to steal cash from ATMs.

Top 10 Performing Security Industry Stocks for October

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Presidio Combats Fraud with IronKey

- One bank’s effort to improve transaction security.

Terrorist Financing, Money Laundering, and Tax Evasion

- This book covers a crucial element in the worldwide battle against terror and provides an academic viewpoint of many of the issues surrounding the ability to quantitatively measure the performance of financial intelligence units.

How to Do Financial Asset Investigations

- An overall theme in the book is to obey the law when conducting investigations. It is critical that investigators be aware of the specifics of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act as well as other state and federal laws.

The Quiet Threat: Fighting Industrial Espionage in America

- This second edition updates its treatment of the topic with additions on tradecraft of the industrial spy and data mining of business information.

Intelligence

- A fraudulent document ring is busted by the federal government, and a look at how terrorists use social media.

Leading Figure in Major International Phishing Operation Sentenced

- A principal figure in a major international hacking ring that allegedly bilked banks of more than $1 million was sentenced last week to five years in prison.

Nonprofit Tax Returns Provide a Gold Mine of Exposed SSNs

- Donors to charities, staff at nonprofits, and scholarship recipients should be wary about sharing their Social Security numbers with tax-exempt organizations whose returns become part of the public record, says a new white paper.

The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror

- The Day Wall Street Exploded is an account of the events surrounding the September 16, 1920, explosion that killed 38 people and rocked America.