Infoglide Blog

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer At the recent International Conference on Cybercrime Forensics Education and Training in Canterbury UK, international experts discussed the challenges involved in keeping up with increasingly sophisticated criminals who target children on the internet. They covered a wide array of subjects that illustrated the complex [...]

eBay and other online auction services have taken some heat from retailers and Congress because organized retail crime rings and other shoplifters are using these types of services for e-fencing. It’s a bit of a dilemma for these sites because if they do the right thing, and reduce e-fencing on their sites, they lose revenue, [...]

We recently featured a link to an article titled “You may be paying $400 to $600 a year to offset shoplifting costs”. When we coined the phrase “fraud tax” in a previous post, we estimated the cost of both property and casualty insurance and retail fraud combined to be about $600 per household. In fact, [...]

By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO [Note: This is a response to a recent comment that was posted by Steve DelBianco of NetChoice about Mike’s post “When Technology Turns Tradition on its Head.” ONLINE AUCTIONS ARE FABULOUS! There, I said it, and I mean it. From most any spot on the face of the earth [...]

By Johnny Norris, Director UK Markets [Note: Today's post is from our offices 'across the pond' in the UK.] News this week from ComputerworldUK tells us that large merchants have seen an increase of over 10% over twelve months in fraud through their online businesses. Notably, a considerable piece of this issue has to do [...]

By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO The rapid march of technology drives rapid change and, in some ways, the use of technology begins to undermine people’s habits that have endured for years and years. That’s a bold statement, but isn’t it interesting that Rep. Alice Borodkin, a state legislator in Colorado, is introducing a new [...]

By Jeff Stein, LPI, president of Executive LP Services, LLC and owner/operator of MonitorClosely.com Franchise Years ago, Loss Prevention (AKA the Security Department) had one major responsibility and that was to apprehend shoplifters and employees. You were reviewed based upon how many apprehensions you had. A secondary responsibility was to respond to alarms, mostly false [...]

We’ve occasionally dabbled in issues of right or wrong in our posts. When does security go too far? What if well-intentioned loss prevention efforts have the bad effect of turning retail clerks into racial profilers? While companies are in the business of making money, we feel they also have a responsibility to act ethically. Here [...]

Do you remember before the Internet existed? When contact information was just address and phone number, not email and Skype? If you’re on the better side of 30, probably. Now can you imagine living without it? Probably not. The Internet and corresponding technologies have given us many benefits, made us more efficient, and even found [...]