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    What is ‘in flight’ data? The data which moves through communication media such as copper wire, optical fiber or even air (in the case of wireless communications) is known as data-in-flight or in flight data. Streaming query engine processes data-in-flight or in flight data. What is ‘at rest’ data? The data that has been written to a media such as a disk drive, tape, cartridge, CD etc., or the data which is inactive and can be stored physically in a digital form is known as data-at-rest or at rest

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    CAUSES AND MEASURES OF CURBING FRAUD IN THE BANKING SECTOR. BY ESSIEN NSIKAK U. A RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING, COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, COVENANT UNIVERSITY, OTA. IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.sc) DEGREE IN ACCOUNTING. CERTIFICATION I certify that this project titled “The Analysis of the causes and measures of curbing fraud in the banking sector” was carried

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    SUMMARY OF KEY FACTS. This case involved a fraud orchestrated by three senior executives of Fair Finance Company (Fair) which had its headquarters at Akron Ohio. This fraud occurred from at least 2005 through November 2009 the defendants involved were the three senior executives –Timothy S. Durham, Chief Executive Officer, James F. Cochran, Chairman, and Rick D. Snow, Chief Financial Officer. These executives defrauded their investors by raising approximately $230 million from at least 5,200 investors

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    Identity Theft Crime

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    The answer to this is yes, a crime has been committed. Identity theft and identity fraud, although used interchangeably, do have some subtle basic disparities. The differences lie in how the information is used. In identity theft, criminals have illegally obtained personal information such as a social security number, driver’s license number, your name and date of birth that has been stolen, acquired or collected for illegal or unlawful use whether the victim is dead or alive. With this information

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    Tft2 Task 4

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    TFT2 Task 4 As the chief information security officer for VL Bank, we were notified by several of our commercial customers of unauthorized wire transfers in an amount greater than $290,000. This is very concerning since we take pride in our information security. As soon as we were notified of the fraudulent transactions my security team, along with the network engineers, performed a thorough investigation of how such attack had occurred. Once we were able to view all logs and audit data it came

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    Ken Lay indicted for conspiracy to commit fraud, Jeff Skilling, indicted for trading and conspiracy to defraud investor and Andy Fastow pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud which is sentence to 10 years. The group of victims that sustained the greatest loss from both qualitative and quantitative were the Eron employees. Employees at Eron were afraid to

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    computer utilization in every aspect of economic activities has increased the vulnerability of people to criminal activities; whereas, a computer is employed as instruments of crime such as murder, child pornography, hacking, virus distribution or fraud. Presently, computers are the newest criminality instrument utilized today; as such, individuals who comprehend in what manner to employ them can access doors that only a small number of people are even aware exist (Rosoff, Pontell &Tillman, 2013)

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    in our own time, legitimate accounting methods have been utilized to fraudulently engage in manipulating activities that results in illicit gains to the perpetrators and losses to individuals and financial institutions. The most common accounting fraud is the misrepresentation of financial statements which is frequently known as “cooking the books” and includes manipulation, falsification, or alteration of accounting records, intentional omission from the financial statements and intentional misapplication

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    White Collar Crime Paper

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    corporate fraud and governmental crime. This paper will discuss two sophisticated crimes in further detail. This paper will explain and assess common methods or avenues of committing white-collar crime, corporate fraud, public corruption, or governmental crime. This paper will analyze the application of state and federal statutory requirements and case law. This paper will provide examples of criminal incidents and the outcomes of the court cases. The common consumer fraud is cashier’s check fraud, fictitious/unauthorized

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    Koss Case

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    54 1.22 Diluted: 0.54 1.22 $ 28,470,352 $ 29,977,077 Total Assets Cash Dividends per Common Share $ 0.52 $ 1.52 IM A ED U C ATIO NA L C A S E JOURNAL 1 VOL. 6, N O. 1, ART. 3, MARCH 2013 PAYMENTS BY CHECK OR WIRE TRANSFER Sue could not pay for all of these purchases with her $200,000 salary or her physician husband’s $600,000 salary.8

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