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Judging the economy by RSA

2008-04-08 14:33:24 by HASH0x8b11b7c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...economy by the size and extravagance of the RSA show. The theory has these rules The better the chotchkies (booth handouts) the better the economy. I can buy that one. This year the best give away I have seen is the bicycle that RSA is giving away. Other than that, I didn't see great giveaways The more booth babes, the better the economy. I...
 
Tags: economy, rsa, booth babes, top shelf booze, hard economic times, recession proof business, conference gala, cocktail shrimp, dead giveaway
 
 
 
 
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Judging the economy by RSA

2008-04-08 15:33:09 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...economy by the size and extravagance of the RSA show. The theory has these rules The better the chotchkies (booth handouts) the better the economy. I can buy that one. This year the best give away I have seen is the bicycle that RSA is giving away. Other than that, I didn't see great giveaways The more booth babes, the better the economy. I...
 
Tags: economy, rsa, booth babes, top shelf booze, hard economic times, recession proof business, conference gala, cocktail shrimp, dead giveaway
 
 
 
 
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Inside the Chinese Underground Economy

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2007-12-09 22:34:23 by HASH0x89e9090 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Economy on the Chinese Web , and this is how they assessed the high activity at the underground related forums Unlike the US or EU blackhats communities, Chinese blackhats are typically not familiar with IRC (In-ternet Relay Chat). They typically use bulletin board systems on the Web or IM software like QQ tocommunicate with each other....
 
Tags: chinese, chinese underground, underground, underground economy, chinese web, chinese red hackers, china, china eagle union, underground black market
 
 
 
 
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Exposing Indias CAPTCHA Solving Economy

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2008-08-29 17:03:37 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...economy in India during the past 12 months, with thousands of people involved The following article - " Inside Indias CAPTCHA solving economy " aims to expose legitimate data entry workers, whose business models and techniques are in fact used by Russian cybercriminals not only for personal phishing, spamming and malware spreading purposes,...
 
Tags: captcha, microsofts captcha, indias major captcha, hotmails captcha, unbreakable captcha, human captcha solvers, human, inside indias captcha, captcha based authentication
 
 
 
 
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The Vulnerability Economy

2008-07-21 16:42:26 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Jeff Moss, the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat, discusses the unfolding of the vulnerability economy. Nowadays, instead of exposing high profile zero-day vulnerabilities at conferences, many researche
 
Tags: vulnerability economy, profile zero-day vulnerabilities, black hat, jeff moss, researche, nowadays, discusses, founder, defcon
 
 
 
 
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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
...economy, exactly the opposite, the economy is booming, investments are made in networks and infrastructure and therefore people will start receiving incentives for training and therefore the demand for IT experts will increase given the government is visionary enough to invest in the long-term, in terms of education and training. If it's not,...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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Is Interop about inter-operational anymore?

2008-05-01 05:43:31 by HASH0x8b7888c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...economy is hurting the town. It used to be said that Vegas was rescission proof. The worse the economy got, the more people gambled. But with so much of Vegas not about gambling, I guess the economy has a big effect. Anyway, back to Interop At one time this show was called Networld+Interop. The Interop portion was very much about how...
 
Tags: vendors, switch vendors, vendors care, nac vendors frankly, frankly, nac vendors, interop, anymore, network world folks
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...economy as a message from God that Linux is on a messianic mission to save us from high gas prices, high food prices, the mortgage and credit crisis and those satan's in Redmond. Vaughan-Nichols says that by switching to Linux and other open source products you could save your company, your job and be more secure to boot Michael who is no...
 
Tags: vaughan-nichols, linux zealot, linux, economy, john kenneth galbraith, michael farnum, obvious pitfalls, obvious, resident cyber cynic
 
 
 
 
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Crude oil and gold at all time highs, US manufacturing at 5 year low, feel like buying some security?

2008-03-03 11:11:29 by HASH0x8b2f8e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...economy. Gold hit an all time hight today at $991 an ounce, crude oil at another high of $103.5 , while the dollar tumbled and US manufacturing hit a 5 year low. Just not a pretty picture. My thoughts begin to wander to what effect our economy is going to have to have on the IT industry and security in particular. I have seen pundits on both...
 
Tags: security, security budgets, time, bad times, times, budgets, bigger hit, hit, tough times business