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How do you spell R-E-L-I-E-F?

2008-02-13 18:50:54 by HASH0x8bc3020 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...buyer. Does the fact that the buyer would have to be a US based company decrease the potential buyer pool, making Tipping Point less valuable? All of these are great questions that are going to need answers before this deal is finalized. In the meantime is being in M&A limbo taking its toll on 3Com. Questions, questions, questions, but I...
 
Tags: buyer, potential buyer pool, questions, bain position, acceptable buyer, bain, based company decrease, substantial stake, mitigation proposals
 
 
 
 
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How do you spell R-E-L-I-E-F?

2008-02-13 17:38:27 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...buyer. Does the fact that the buyer would have to be a US based company decrease the potential buyer pool, making Tipping Point less valuable? All of these are great questions that are going to need answers before this deal is finalized. In the meantime is being in M&A limbo taking its toll on 3Com. Questions, questions, questions, but I...
 
Tags: buyer, potential buyer pool, questions, bain position, acceptable buyer, bain, based company decrease, substantial stake, mitigation proposals
 
 
 
 
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An Option with a Negative Value?

2006-07-28 08:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...buyer. This results into a "free lunch" as described by one of the posters (waiter222). The option buyer will always win out in this case. He can exercise and make money when "in-the-money". He also has an instant gain even when the option expires worthless due to the initial cash flow. Indeed it is unfair Mathematically, an option value...
 
Tags: option, negative option, option seller, option writer sells, option buyer, option position, negative, position, writer
 
 
 
 
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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 05:57:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...buyer, the better you can sell First, a bit about Prospect Theory, the underlying theory behind the newly popular field of behavioral economics. Prospect Theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 (Kahneman went on to win a Nobel Prize for this and other similar work) to explain how people make trade-offs that involve...
 
Tags: security, loss, risky loss, risky larger loss, gain, risky larger gain, security purchase, directly, security directly
 
 
 
 
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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...buyer. When volatility increases, option prices increase as well. This added value stems from a higher possibility of going in-the-money. Conversely, a decrease in volatility will lower the option value. So if Credit Suisse was the one who "bought" the stock options via the reverse convertible structure, a decrease in volatility will decrease...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments valuation volatility, valuation, volatility, decrease option, volatility increases
 
 
 
 
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Why PCI Is Good For Business

2007-12-03 17:16:25 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...buyer confidence by lowering the statistical probability that they will be compromised by purchasing online Ive always been an advocate of increasing the potency of PCI by making it more stringent for which I have been told I am anti-business. Not exactly. Lets use an example. Lets say Im mega huge company-A and I follow every security...
 
Tags: mega huge company-a, huge, pci, security, security directly impacts, company-a, mega huge company-b, company-b, exploit
 
 
 
 
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U.K. gov't laptop with confidential disc sold on eBay

2008-02-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b73584 in Network World on Security
 
The Home Office has launched an investigation after a buyer acquired a laptop on eBay that contained a disc with confidential information
 
Tags: ebay, laptop, home office, confidential information, disc, buyer, investigation
 
 
 
 
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Embedding Malicious IFRAMEs Through Stolen FTP Accounts

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2008-03-03 10:14:01 by HASH0x8b0b9bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...buyer confirm he's making a smart purchase on the other side of the universe on Neosploit's "purpose in life The information was available for blackmarket trade, along with the NeoSploit version 2 crimeware toolkit, a malicious application specifically designed to abuse and trade stolen FTP account credentials from numerous legitimate...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data
 
 
 
 
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Security Products: Suites vs. Best-of-Breed

2008-03-10 06:33:16 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...buyer This is good consolidation. Instead of having to choose between a single product suite that isn't very good or a best-of-breed set of products that don't work well together, we can ignore the issue completely. We can just find an infrastructure provider that will figure it out and make it work -- who cares how This essay originally...
 
Tags: security, non-security companies, security companies, companies, magic security dust, provide, security industry, provide security, industry
 
 
 
 
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