This report will explain how all three conditions were present in Anna’s actions, how Max and Company failed to uphold quality, and describe Anna’s background. Body In the Maxwell case three elements where present that allowed fraudulent activities to occur in the Rusher Automotive company. The first element discovered was opportunity. Maxwell & Company assigned one accountant, Anna Thomas, to this client, Rusher Automotive. Anna did all bookkeeping work, recording journal entries, preparing checks for bills financial statement reporting for this client and she also did regular daily work like taking the deposit to the bank for the client.
While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility," Patrick Seybold, senior director of corporate communications and social media, wrote on the company blog. The message was also emailed to account holders. The breach may also impact minors, as PSN account holders can authorize a "sub-account" for dependents. Account details belonging to those dependents were also breached, Sony said. The PlayStation Network (which provides access to online games, movies and TV shows) and Qriocity were compromised sometime between April 17 and April 19 after an external intrusion into the network.
It’s not easy to protect that information with all the new technology that is being produced and some protection software and security holes which hacks seem to find them quite often now days. Software Company’s try to patch them as soon possible but sometimes they are too late and hacks have already found it and stolen a lot of information. One of my former health care company (Anthem Blue Cross) was hack a few months ago and when they looked into it they found another breach so they sent every member two year of Protectmyid.com so if my information get used I am protected. I am not too mad about it because they did not know about the security hole and I am glad they are helping protect everyone information but I hate that someone somewhere may have my
Pearson then claimed that the found pants were not his because they had cuffs, and sued the Chungs for $67 million. Issues, Laws and Verdict Roy Pearson sued the Chungs claiming that the Chungs violated D.C. consumer protection laws (Consumer Protection Procedures Act or CPPA). Specifically, that the Chungs committed fraud because they did not live up to the promise of a “Satisfaction Guaranteed” sign hanging in the store (Bartnoff, 2007, p. 1). In her “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” on the case, Judge Bartnoff (2007) wrote that Pearson expected, “an unconditional warranty that required the defendants to honor any claim by any customer, without limitation, based on the customer’s determination of whatever would make that customer ”satisfied.”” (p. 1) Included in the suit were claims that he had been subject to “mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort” at the hands of the Chungs (O’Rourke, 2007 p.10). So Pearson sued for common law fraud and violations of the CPPA, but did he present enough evidence to support his claims in court?
IRIDIUM CASE STUDY We believe Iridium has one major flaw in the marketing of their global satellite phone system. Iridium did not create a strategic marketing plan at the beginning of the product development process. Iridium started with a perceived problem by management and then developed a solution. When Iridium first started the development of their satellite system, the problem may have been a valid. But the solution took years to develop and the market was never resampled or reevaluated.
Defendant further assured its employees, including plaintiff, that e-mail communications could not be intercepted and used by defendant against its employees as grounds for termination or reprimand. (Halbert & Ingulli, 2010, p. 71) Mr. Smyth was receiving and sending e-mails on his home computer. In his communications with his supervisor there was use of offensive language. These communications were intercepted by executives in the company. Mr. Smyth and his supervisor were terminated for unbecoming and unprofessional comments over the company’s e-mail system.
Besides all the HW-related reasons, which were identified by the Cisco SWAT team, there were also process related ones. One was, that the architecture of the IS was not managed from one central point, which resulted in situation, that there were some computers added to the network without analyzing before its impact on the network. The second reason was that there was no evidence of changes and new SW releases. The third reason was, that new applications were run directly in the production environment without previous testing outside it. The trigger of the collapse was the situation, when a researcher at CareGroup did not remove the experimental knowledge management application that was
The backup performed earlier in the day was also corrupt. The link to the disaster recovery data center had not been restored following the performance testing. Because
Attorneys for the family against the machine manufacturer (AECL) The Therac-25 design eliminated many of the hardware safety features that been built into previous designs, assuming the software was functioning correctly and eliminated the need for safety features. Prior machines had been known to have software issues that would frequently shut down the machine. No overdoses were given because the hardware intervened. These features were eliminated in the Therac-25, an obvious example of poor judgment on the part of the manufacturer. The manufacturer of the machine responded irresponsibly in investigating incidents and in failing to make changes immediately after the very first incident.
| * Using the internet as a primary source of information transferal immediately adds to the threat of cyberattacks, in addition to the ability to commit fraud due to the fact that ChoicePoint does not physically interact with the businesses it, at least to confirm the business’ credentials | Changes in clientele- ChoicePoint’s initial customer base was based in the automobile industry, and had recently expanded into a variety of different industries for data collection and sale | * Having only been accustomed to particular industries beforehand, ChoicePoint is ill-equipped to deal with numerous small businesses and the challenges they pose, including, but not limited to, their authenticity. | Scrutiny- ChoicePoint’s primary role in a customer-business relationship is to provide users with data, while recording personal data for many individuals in a central database | * ChoicePoint should first consider the data it sells- the primary issue throughout this attack is that the data was made readily available to fraudulent businesses through common business practices. | 2. Was the breach due to technical and/or business practices? Which?