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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is no Nobel economic laureate

2008-07-16 16:09:15 by HASH0x847303c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Economic cycles being what they are, by the time you actually planned and implemented this switch the economy would probably be back on the upswing and the economic reasons for undertaking this drastic a move would be gone. Than you would have the expense of moving over including training and downtime. I think by the time you are done with...
 
Tags: vaughan-nichols, linux zealot, linux, economy, john kenneth galbraith, michael farnum, obvious pitfalls, obvious, resident cyber cynic
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...economic situation. What does this all mean for IT Security? Well, all the credit accounts are still out there, so theres still plenty of information that is available to be exploited But will consumers hesitance to go into debt also make them more watchful for ID Theft and other fraud-related crime, and more afraid of hackers online? In...
 
Tags: credit card consumerism, credit, slowdown, credit accounts, economic slowdown, consumers hesitance, consumers, security, credit card debts
 
 
 
 
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Economic woes won't affect Europe security spending

2008-04-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8afd7ec in Network World on Security
 
Western Europe will increase spending on IT security products despite the shaky economic conditions caused by the credit crisis, according to new figures released on Monday by IDC
 
Tags: shaky economic conditions, western europe, credit crisis, security products, increase, monday, figures, idc
 
 
 
 
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Links List 8.29.08

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2008-08-29 14:00:44 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...economic commission that recommended tax benefits to stimulate more open source development. Lesson learned from France: start em early. All students in France use open source Just in time for Labor Day, John Edwards (no, not that one) comes out with an informative guide on Who provides what in the cloud . No doubt, this will be a rapidly...
 
Tags: percent, source, source development, thirty percent, labor day, source usage, costs, energy costs, thirty-five percent cited
 
 
 
 
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Are Stolen Credit Card Details Getting Cheaper?

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2008-07-15 15:36:12 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...economic theory you believe in, or whether or not you'll take the "bottom-up approach" or the "top-down" one. And since I'm not aware of the existence of "the invisible hand of the underground market" and centralized power to increase the supply or decrease it to boost prices for the stolen credit card details, also indicating the existence...
 
Tags: price, average market price, market price, credit card, credit card details, details, market, competitive market equilibrium, credit card basis
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...economics, and research ministries were targeted. The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) conducted a comprehensive search of government IT installations, and prevented a further 160 giga-bytes of information from being transferred to China. The scale and nature of the stolen data suggested that the operation...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies
 
 
 
 
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E-crime and Socioeconomic Factors

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2008-01-21 07:49:29 by HASH0x8b5217c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...economic models will suffer from the inevitable unequal distribution of income due to their government's lack of experience or motivation. To me, however, it's more sociocultural than socioeconomic factors that contribute to these future developments. Several more key points worth discussing Malware is no longer created, it's being...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...economic Control allows a company to limit competition for ancillary products. With Mac computers, anyone can sell software that does anything. But Apple gets to decide who can sell what on the iPhone. It can foster competition when it wants, and reserve itself a monopoly position when it wants. And it can dictate terms to any company that...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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Viewpoint Two: The recession wont affect security folks

2008-02-13 12:51:37 by Paul Stamp in Security & Risk Management
 
...economic cycles OK, so therell be less cash floating around for the big banks to fill their labs with new product evaluations, but does that really affect the majority of us? I would say not. Yes, were going to have to show more business justification for our technology. Yes, were going to have to consolidate. Yes, were going to have to...
 
Tags: security, security folks, majority, business, vast majority, business justification, streamline process, contractual requirements, affect
 
 
 
 
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Economics of secure software

2007-01-21 10:13:02 by RaviC in M