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Consumer Connection: Discussing Scams and Fraud with Your Family Members over the Holidays | Lifestyle

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This holiday season, Iowans will gather with loved ones making it a great time for discussions about financial fraud to help prevent those you care about from becoming victims. The Iowa Insurance Division’s Iowa Fraud Fighters program focuses on fraud against elder Iowans, but younger Iowans are also falling victim to scams at a higher rate than ever before. Fraud prevention firm SEON analyzed data collected in 2020 by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and found fraud complaints from consumers under the age of 20 had the largest increase in 2019 and 2020. Victims under 20 had collective losses of approximately $3,000 per person. The report also found that the older the victim, the more money they lost. This finding may be due to older Americans having more assets than our younger consumers. Fraudsters do not discriminate when it comes to age.

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Central Pattana Public : Notification of the changes of the Company’s Directors, Members of Audit and Corporate Governance Committee and Members of Sub-committees

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Lead Independent Director and Chairman of the Risk Policy Committee

Chairman of Audit and Corporate Governance Committee Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee Member of Audit and Corporate Governance Committee and Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee

(Translation)

9 August 2022

Notification of the changes of the Company’s Directors, Members of Audit and Corporate

Governance Committee and Members of Sub-committees

No. 51/2022/035

To

President

The Stock Exchange of Thailand

Enclosure List of Members of the Board of Directors and Form to Report on Names of Members and Scope of Work of the Audit Committee (F24-1)

Central Pattana Public Company Limited ( “the Company“) hereby informs that, on 9 August 2022, its Board of Directors Meeting No.6/2022 has passed significant resolutions as follows:

  1. Acknowledged the resignation from the directorship of Mr. Karun Kittisataporn and Mr. Paitoon Taveebhol. Such directors will perform their duties till end of 31 August 2022.
  2. Appointed Mrs. Parnsiree Amatayakul and Mr. Winid Silamongkol to be directors replacing Mr. Karun Kittisataporn and Mr. Paitoon Taveebhol respectively.
  3. Appointed the following persons to take positions in sub-committees to fulfill the

vacated position.

1) Mr. Veravat Chutichetpong

2)…

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Dear Board Members, Cybersecurity Is Your Problem Too

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For every threat reported in the news, there are great many that remained undisclosed. In many cases, the threat or the attack also goes unnoticed until it’s too late. 

The problem is asymmetry. Hackers are constantly improving their arsenal of attack tools, focusing on ransom by targeting the most vulnerable and privileged, shifting to credential theft and disruption on top of monetary opportunities, and targeting new industries that remain unprepared (and sometimes unaware). 

The X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2022 offers some clues to the evolving attack. It found that North America’s manufacturing industry faced more attacks that led to supply chain issues (28%) than finance and insurance — a first in the past five years. This is terrible news for companies who see IoT analytics and smart manufacturing as solutions to overcome razor-thin margins and unpredictable macroeconomic factors. 

Attackers are also dialing up their sophistication. A recent Achore survey showed that three out of five companies suffered supply chain attacks in 2021. Meanwhile, the Log4j vulnerability in open source libraries showed how vulnerable all companies are across all industries. 

“The threats are getting more sophisticated, the time to detect and respond is increasing, and vulnerabilities continue to rise. This demands a new way of delivering security, with zero trust emerging as a set of architectural standards and practices being advocated within NIST,” says Mukul Mathur, vice president for IBM Security in Asia Pacific and China.

Rethinking cybersecurity

The idea behind the zero trust, which Forrester first introduced as a model in 2010, is not revolutionary, nor is it new. But it does require a break from conventional thinking.

Here’s why: conventional security practices establish security perimeters. For business leaders, this castle-and-moat approach made sense. Anyone verified as an employee can work safely within intranets protected by rings of firewalls. All you have to do is make it someone’s responsibility to keep those perimeter defenses up. That became CISO’s primary remit.

However, the pandemic blurred work-personal life boundaries and poked holes in existing…

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Prince George’s Council Members Respond to Spike in Carjackings – NBC4 Washington

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Carjackings have continued to spike in both D.C. and Prince George’s County, leading two county council members to call the crisis a state of emergency.

On April 11, a DoorDash driver was carjacked in District Heights, Maryland, on his first day on the job. Five days later, an Amazon Flex driver said she was in the Bellevue neighborhood in the District when two young people punched her and demanded her keys. And on Tuesday night, several people carjacked a person on H Street NE.

“This is really a carjacking state of emergency, this is not okay, this is not business as usual,” Mel Franklin, a Prince George’s County councilmember, said. 

Franklin and fellow council member Deni Tavares say they’re worried about families who have to deal with carjacking crime.

“They’re just trying to live quiet lives and this is what they’re experiencing on a daily basis,” Tavares said.

In Prince George’s, 90 people were carjacked in 2019. That number nearly tripled to 269 in 2020 and spiked again last year to 381.​

So far in 2022, if carjackings continue at the current pace, the figure will top last year’s number.​

Over in D.C., there have been 161 carjackings so far in 2022, compared to 110 this time last year. That’s an increase of 46%.​

“If people don’t feel safe, they will not live here. We have to restore a sense of safety and a sense of security,” Franklin said. ​

It’s why the council members are pushing for more investment in the community, such as the future Towne Square at Suitland Federal Center, which used to be an area with high crime.  ​

“It’s this kind of investment that can make a supreme difference in reducing crime and helping uplift our communities,” Franklin said. ​

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