"With any new technology there are new ways for people to engage in fraud, " said Kevin Mahaffey, co-founder of mobile-security-software maker Lookout Inc.
Executives who make spectacularly bad decisions can only be subjected to criminal prosecution if they engage in fraud or deliberately close their eyes to it.
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We're asking for very carefully controlled, court supervised intelligence gathering information, powers that we already have for drug traffickers, organized crime figures, and people who engage in fraud.
In this particular instance, a 1995 law designed to protect securities firms from abusive investor lawsuits says that before the (often expensive) fact-finding period of a case begins, plaintiffs must show a "strong inference" that a company intended to engage in fraud.
Users who clicked on the links became vulnerable to programs installed on their computers that were designed to steal bank codes, send spam and engage in click fraud.
We need to have the same authority to go after terrorists that we have for organized crime figures already who engage in wire fraud or something comparable to that.
According to a recent study by Mei Feng (University of Pittsburg), Weili Ge (University of Washington), Shuqing Luo (National University of Singapore) and Terry Shevlin (University of Washington), CFOs engage in financial statement fraud largely due to pressure from CEOs, not a desire to receive a personal financial gain.
Mr. Monsegur, a few days after his bail hearing in August, pleaded guilty to 12 criminal charges, including three counts of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking, computer hacking in furtherance of fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
The Justices ruled 5-3 Tuesday that third parties, such as investment banks, accounting firms and suppliers, can be shielded from liability if they engage in business with companies that are involved in securities fraud.
That's why the IRS conducts audits, why Medicare employs fraud investigators, why courts have juries and judges, and why scholarly journals engage in peer review of papers submitted for publication.
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