SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 21 records
 
Expand article

Are fund managers really overcompensated?

2006-08-11 07:55:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...decline in hedge fund fees. In fact, my guess is that compensation across the investment management business is beginning a secular decline. It's the most overcompensated business in the world. Never have so many been paid so much for adding so little. It's an evolutionary process I am aware that competition forces fees in a downward trend...
 
Tags: hedge funds cfa, hedge funds, managers, funds, hedge fund fees, forces, hedge fund, competition forces fees, fees
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Terrorism as a Tax

2008-05-12 06:29:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...decline in overseas travel to the United States between Sept. 11, 2001, and 2006. (There are no firm figures for 2007 yet, but there seems to have been an uptick.) That slump has cost the country $94 billion in lost tourist spending, nearly 200,000 jobs and $16 billion in forgone tax revenue -- and all while the dollar has kept dropping Why?...
 
Tags: tax, security, security risks, security countermeasures, security trade-offs, fear tax falls, security lines, beefed-up security forces, percent decline
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Bots + Web Vulnerabilites - An Approaching Storm

2008-05-15 21:55:13 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...decline (and will decline even more after this attack). I begin thinking about vulnerabilities that would do the same thing but have a much broader reach Our good friends XSS and CSRF So here is the attack Find a few permanent XSS vulnerabilities in some high traffic sites Find some CRSF vulns in popular blog and forum software Craft your...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, permanent xss vulnerabilities, xss, sql injection, attack shortly, attack, mass sql injection, web vulnerabilites, browser vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...decline in volatility, which is what happened. The lessons that we can learn here are the following 1) You can lose when there is less volatility -- particularly in options since volatility is explicitly included in valuation 2) When building a structure, one should know how to hedge it properly Tags: derivatives financial engineering...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments valuation volatility, valuation, volatility, decrease option, volatility increases
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Security certification leads to a higher salary, survey shows

2007-07-12 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Security certifications are bucking the trend while premiums for other certifications decline
 
Tags: certifications decline, security certifications, premiums, trend
 
 
 
 
Expand article

What Does SHA1 is Broken Mean?

2007-12-12 07:35:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...decline Until the strength of SHA1 drops to 2 40 , it is still a valid way to protect against pre-image attacks Why Did I Choose SHA1 In addition to SHA1 being secure in the example, there were a couple of other reasons I choose to use it instead of something like SHA256 (2 256 ). The first reason was that in the example, I was showing...
 
Tags: sha1, choose sha1, sha1 protects, hash data, data, sha1 drops, hash function, hash, function
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report - 1st Half 2007

The Article has images
2007-10-23 16:35:43 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...decline in total vulnerabilities since 2003 Note however, another trend as shown in the chart. High severity vulnerabilities continue to grow significantly, while the overall total flattened out. In the full report, you'll also note a trend reversal with complexity to exploit dropping as well There are a couple of other interesting results...
 
Tags: total vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, report, severity vulnerabilities continue, software vulnerabilities, malicious software, sir results, software, results
 
 
 
 
Expand article

MDAC ActiveX Code Execution Exploit Still in the Wild

The Article has images
2007-12-05 12:08:56 by HASH0x89e6630 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Decline One of the reasons is that bad guys don't have to use them (zero day)," said Skoudis, who also founded information security consultancy Intelguardians. For example, he said, the Storm worm propagates itself though users clicking on an e-mail link, and does not require a zero-day exploit to function. "When simple techniques work,...
 
Tags: exploit, day, day vulnerabilities, htm, malware, malware exploitation kit, single exploit urls, vulnerabilities, storm worm apparently
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Using Remote Assistance behind a router

2008-01-14 08:24:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...Decline" links. I clicked accept, and after about 10 seconds and a second confirmation from him, I was looking at his screen. Woohoo! Then I clicked "Take Control" and after his confirmation, I was able to control his machine remotely, even though both of us were behind firewall/NAT devices Here's the two pages that were most helpful for me...
 
Tags: remote assistance, remote assistance session, assistance, assume remote assistance, remote assistance faq, router, remote desktop port, remote desktop, computer
 
 
 
 
Expand article

ICANN Moving On With Elimination of Domain Tasting

2008-02-05 06:24:07 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...decline? Not sure of the answ