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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...arms sales to the Middle East Both trips were part of the company's effort to tap into the growing -- and often legally murky -- market for selling weapons from former Eastern Bloc countries to the Middle East and Afghanistan Ex-Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., is helping broker deals between Russian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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The New Arms Bazaar: From Russia, With No Love

2008-07-30 18:25:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
 
The Americans want to funnel Russian-built arms to Afghanistan and Iraq. But various sanctions make that illegal. So the government is in the awkward position of trying to evade its own laws
 
Tags: funnel russian-built arms, awkward position, government, sanctions, evade, illegal, americans, afghanistan, laws
 
 
 
 
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Why your company may need a mystery shopper

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2008-02-28 03:21:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...arms folded across their chest. Without moving, or unfolding his arms, the clerk asked if I needed any help. I said I was looking for a printer that I believed was etiher made by Kodak or Xerox and it used a cheaper ink. They thought for a while and the manager shook his head and said they didn't sell anything by either maker. Arms were never...
 
Tags: hours sans starbucks, starbucks, coffee, coffee fun, customers, loyal customers, sales, fun, customer service counter
 
 
 
 
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Mets get Santana, Yankees and Red Sox thrilled

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2008-02-03 09:00:21 by HASH0x8bc0100 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...arms. Hughes, Kennedy and Chamberlain. These three could be the rock the Yankees build their next dynasty on. The Yankees are finally going to let the young arms develop on the Yankees. Plus even the Yankees have to worry about yet another big contract. I think one of the things driving both the Yanks and Sox quest for Santana was to keep...
 
Tags: sox, red sox, mets, yankees, santana, mets dearly, mets rotation, sox players, johan santana sweepstakes
 
 
 
 
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Wakeup Call for Risk Management

2008-09-19 10:11:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...ARMs, option ARMs, and interest only loans proliferated. In many cases, all pretense of lending standards were abandoned, so-called liar loans approved Capital was grossly over-leveraged . Mortgage lenders and other financial services packaged loans into securities, which they sold to raise capital to support more lending. Real capital...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management debacle, risk management failure, failure, risk management realistic, business risk management, risk management models, risk, risk management situations
 
 
 
 
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Security is not all about Security Updates

2007-12-17 12:58:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...arms race where attackers constantly devise new attacks to thwart the defender's defenses. Which means you can never hope for zero security vulnerabilities. We have seen many of these forward-looking defenses in action in Windows Vista, IIS6, SQL Server 2005 and Office 2007 Look carefully at the list of products I just mentioned, they are all...
 
Tags: security, end-user security documentation, security response, fix security bugs, response, security fix, implementation vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, security feature development
 
 
 
 
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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...arms race goes on This essay previously appeared on Wired.com EDITED TO ADD (2/12): SlashDot thread And critical commentary , which is oddly political: This isnt lock-in, its called choosing a product that meets your needs. If you dont want to be tied to a particular phone network, dont buy an iPhone. If installing third-party applications...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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The Cybercrime Arms Race

2008-02-19 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Kaspersky Labs) Sophisticated groups are leading underworld efforts into cybercrime, creating viruses, spyware, Trojans, worms and other malware. These groups now even provide complementary criminal services to their clients helping them to outsmart Internet security providers and users. With little or no investment, there's plenty of...
 
Tags: cybercrime, cybercrime perpetrators, underworld efforts, kaspersky labs, plenty, source, spyware, users, whitepaper
 
 
 
 
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Got Sopranos? Yet another thing I did not know as much about

2007-11-26 20:55:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...arms dealers, but information is becoming the new dust Credit card numbers, card swipe data, etc., are selling for a princes ransom in the marketplace. You saw this recently on 60 minutes . There are websites that provide you with specific cards such as Visa Gold and you can bid on them! You shut one down and another pops up in its stead....
 
Tags: cardholder data, crime business, crime, card swipe data, recent trip, visa gold, breaches, nefarious goals, arms dealers