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Risk Preferences in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

2008-04-17 06:20:51 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...closely related species: chimanzees and bonobos. Abstract Human and non-human animals tend to avoid risky prospects. If such patterns of economic choice are adaptive, risk preferences should reflect the typical decision-making environments faced by organisms. However, this approach has not been widely used to examine the risk sensitivity in...
 
Tags: risk preferences, risk, relative risk preferences, risk-prone behaviour, approach, people approach risk, people, losses, risk larger losses
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Hong Kong Child Assessment Service flash drive

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2008-04-29 22:05:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...closely with the police in the investigation of a suspected theft case involving a removable electronic storage device ( USB flash drive ) containing patients information Reference URL Media Newswire Monsters & Critics Health & Community News Report Credit Hong Kong Department of Health Response From the online sources cited above Hong Kong -...
 
Tags: personal data sums, personal data, hong kong, sensitive personal data, data, lost data, hong kong department, flash drive, information
 
 
 
 
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Former NYU personal information exposed at Duke University

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2008-05-21 14:27:07 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...closely guarded secrets by Google, Yahoo, et. al The personal information was removed from Fuqua's public drives within 30 minutes of the school becoming aware of the problem on April 30 Evan] The ability to post information for public consumption must be closely monitored by organizations, and those with permissions must be properly...
 
Tags: nyu, nyu students immediately, nyu students, information, personal information, fuqua, current fuqua students, specific student names, names
 
 
 
 
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Train keeps a rollin' around open source

2008-01-29 07:34:20 by HASH0x8b75cb4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...closely. With both companies so closely aligned with their open source communities, i don't think too many people are worrying about the future of the projects. I didn't see any financial details disclosed for this one though. Here is one fact that caught my eye about these two companies though. SpringSource has more than 1,000 paying...
 
Tags: source, companies, source companies, source deal, source company, deal, source products, days ago nokia, nokia
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...closely watched. Customers, business partners, and investors alike have more access to risk management information than ever, thanks in part to rating agencies and regulatory filings. More risk-savvy media are also becoming more likely expose companies demonstrating poor risk management strategies or a lack of commitment to all stakeholders....
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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Another stolen Pennsylvania DPW computer, more victims

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2007-12-12 15:10:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...closely with law enforcement throughout their investigation and is ready to assist every client who may be impacted Evan] I really like this statement from Estelle B. Richman. It feels genuine to me The information on the computers was password protected. The information contained the names and Social Security numbers of approximately 14...
 
Tags: dpw computer, dpw, pennsylvania, pennsylvania dpw computers, dpw clients, pennsylvania department, sensitive personal information, personal information, department
 
 
 
 
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Identity Framework Probable Feature List

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2007-12-16 06:42:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...closely. I created a wiki page to quickly hack up this list. Here's what it looks like now Fx helps you implement a custom STS STS can issue managed cards (see below Fx provides a base class for your STS, (it's currently called SecurityTokenService You derive from this base class and supply a "ScopeProvider" implementation which answers (at...
 
Tags: informationcard login control, login control, information card serializer, information, control, user authentication methods, user, custom sts, card
 
 
 
 
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Turns out John found a bargain

2008-01-17 10:35:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...closely. There it is Apparently John's found an excellent deal . It turns out that the trusted root cert he had to install was only for the *purchase* of the certificate. It's odd that Comodo didn't use their established trusted root to issue the SSL cert for the site where they sell these certificates Mea culpa
 
Tags: root, root cert, root store, ssl cert, excellent deal, cert costs, apparently john, mea culpa, comodo
 
 
 
 
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IBM Says Business Event Processing is Not CEP

2008-01-24 13:54:31 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...closely aligned with the business event processing than anything that is truly CEP
 
Tags: business, business event, cep, sandy carter, carter, businessevents, deploy businessevents, soa, boost bpm-soa line
 
 
 
 
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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...closely monitored. Ed Giorgio, who is working with McConnell on the plan, said that would mean giving the government the authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search. "Google has records that could help in a cyber-investigation," he said. Giorgio warned me, "We have a saying in this business: 'Privacy and...
 
Tags: privacy, security, security affects privacy, people, people choose security, choose security, anti-privacy, afford privacy, security theater