SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 15 records
 
Expand article

Important tips when looking at online debt help

2008-12-12 17:38:21 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...debt counseling clipped from www.internetevolution.com Online Debt Counseling: Consumer Beware This booming business has now become a $7-billion-a-year industry . Never before have so many products, services, and advice been offered to the ever-growing leper colony known as the insolvent But lets make something crystal clear: There are...
 
Tags: debt, online debt, leper colony, online choices, consumer beware, online community, practical decisions, economic malaise, tips
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Debt collectors mining your secrets

2008-06-19 00:00:00 by Mark Gibbs in Network World on Security
 
Gibbs gets a call from a debt collector and learns about skip tracing and the largely unregulated industry behind it
 
Tags: debt collector, gibbs, skip, learns, call, industry
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Running Government Finances Like a Bank

2006-08-08 08:56:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...debt of Asian countries since the Asian Financial Crisis . As justification, governments need to issue debt to support the financial markets, jump start the economy, and develop infrastructure, etc. Sovereigns with large outstanding debt are seen to be more credit risky and more more susceptible to something going wrong. Thus, the IMF issued...
 
Tags: public debt, public debt management, government, debt, public debt portfolio, government debt, financial, financial markets, issue
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Laptop stolen from Minnesota Department of Commerce vendor

The Article has images
2007-12-29 00:01:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...debt collection license applicants and licensees Number Affected 219 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, addresses and state license numbers Breach Description A laptop computer containing sensitive personal information belonging to 219 Minnesota real estate, abstractor, appraiser and debt collection license applicants and...
 
Tags: minnesota, minnesota real estate, sensitive personal information, personal information, minnesota department, department, minnesota licensees, real, information
 
 
 
 
Expand article

700,000 records on stolen CCB server

The Article has images
2008-04-22 14:57:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...debt collection purposes by Indiana businesses, on or before March 20, 2008 Number Affected 700,000 Types of Data personal information, including names, contact information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, dates of service, and medical procedure codes Breach Description Indiana residents are hereby alerted to a security breach at...
 
Tags: dds, gary taylor dds, gary hunt dds, lawrence falender dds, joseph meek dds, caryn guba dds, mark ellis dds, sarah akard dds, ccb
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Will Economic Slowdown Cause More Consumer Awareness of Security?

2008-08-12 15:13:54 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...debts , and theyre realigning their needs and wants with a more realistic financial outlook Of course, if youre broke and have no access to credit you dont have much choice but to be frugal, but is that all thats going on here? Or are consumers tired of being pressured to take on massive debt in order to super size and bling everything? What...
 
Tags: credit card consumerism, credit, slowdown, credit accounts, economic slowdown, consumers hesitance, consumers, security, credit card debts
 
 
 
 
Expand article

XSS Comedy III: Tax Cheats with Small Equipment

2008-11-12 16:52:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...debt into $999. Then there are the "businesses" who exploit these folks and willingly convince them of their "success" via the power of advertising, at which point my patience just snaps, as it did last night Thus, part one of this rant is a mighty bugger off to all the "tax relief" companies. To their patrons, may I suggest simply paying...
 
Tags: idr, idr choose, extenze site, extenze, variable, consistent variable, wankers, choose, tax relief
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Just How Vulnerable Is Asia To The Current US Sub-Prime Crisis?

2007-08-31 07:59:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...debt, they would probably say that the exposure is pretty small. In fact, Asian central banks also agree with this notion. Unlike some hedge funds with nearly 100% exposure to the sector, the percentage of exposure to US Sub-Prime trough CDO's are not significant enough to dent the bank's earnings and value. Income streams of these banks are...
 
Tags: banks, asian central banks, asian banks, exposure, crisis situation, sub-prime trough cdo, situation, risk management, blown crisis
 
 
 
 
Expand article

See, they ain't that scientific either

2008-02-25 13:42:29 by Paul Stamp in Security & Risk Management
 
...debt products that are giving banks no end of bellyache. Ironically the conference was held in Las Vegas, and a wonderful quote came from hedge fund manager John Devaney, who said "I'd like to thank the market for dealing me a direct hit. As a trader if you don't get sucker-punched every once in a while, you don't understand what risk is...
 
Tags: risk management, information risk management, information risk, risk, information risk professionals, risk models, model risk effectively, direct hit, quote
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Foundry Networks - Brocade's 3 billion dollar baby

2008-07-21 23:04:10 by HASH0x8b169ec in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...debt, do they have what it takes to go on and take on Cisco now? The highways and byways of Silicon Valley are littered with companies that have tried to take Cisco out of this market. What about the 7 dwarfs who currently compete in this market. Companies like HP ProCurve , Extreme Networks , Nortel , Enterasys, Alcatel-Lucent and Force 10...
 
Tags: foundry, foundry networks,