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An analysis of structured data related to fraud, cyber, white collar and computer assisted crime. The aim is to detect and analyze patterns of fraudulent activities and criminal behaviors.
By: Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, CFE, CHFI, PI This is the time for which kids have been waiting! It is also the time for parents to increase vigilance on the toys and games used by their children over the summer holiday. Recognizing this, school-based Chief Information Security Officers (CISO), penetration testers and ethical hacking […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology A charter school operator in Ohio, Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is on the hook for $60 million in repayments to the Ohio Department of Education for over-charges related to inflating student attendance data. “Improperly enrolling students, forging signatures on student applications to increase enrollment numbers […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Thanksgiving is often a time when fraudsters prey upon our most vulnerable. You wouldn’t think that university fundraising departments would risk exposing confidential income, employment, and private wealth information of their alumni to third parties for added financial gains would you? Related Articles and Reports […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Perhaps the reform, re-organization and right-sizing of the federal education bureaucracy has its benefits. For instance, the Office of State Support under the federal U.S. Department of Education was created in 2014 based upon the merger of disparate technical assistance programs to support Title I […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA,MA Educational Psychology Is grade inflation in colleges and universities symptomatic of fraud? Maybe. According to the dictionary, grade inflation represents the “the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school’s academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.” (See Dictionary) How might […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Did you hear about the data breach of information stored at the Alaska Office of Children’s Services today? The state divulged that personal information of “individuals who have interacted with the Alaska Office of Children’s Services” was accessed. The fourfold purpose of the Children’s Services […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA,MA Educational Psychology The Office of Inspector General is auditing the four year graduation rate of students attending public secondary schools in Alabama and California. In previous years the student graduation rates of Washington State and South Dakota were audited. Innocent school level data-related errors were cited by the […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology There has been such an uproar about fake news surfacing on the internet, television and radio. Some wonder whether anything we can’t see, hear, taste or touch for ourselves is really real. Now it looks like we may need to add fake research to our […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology The Maryland State Board of Education is investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging the alteration of student grades and credits for the purpose of misrepresenting graduation rates. This is not a new phenomenon. School employees as well as students manipulate grades to increase GPAs, graduate, pass a […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Yesterday, WannaCry threatened to impact the global internet infrastructure. In May, computer security experts warned of the second biggest ransomware attacks, ever. [WP, headline, May 14]. Other articles you may find of interest Post- Hack to prove enrollment Post- Cyber scammers target schools Post- Botnet grade […]