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Wakeup Call for Risk Management

2008-09-19 10:11:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...Exotic instruments like ARMs, option ARMs, and interest only loans proliferated. In many cases, all pretense of lending standards were abandoned, so-called liar loans approved Capital was grossly over-leveraged . Mortgage lenders and other financial services packaged loans into securities, which they sold to raise capital to support more...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management debacle, risk management failure, failure, risk management realistic, business risk management, risk management models, risk, risk management situations
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Greed and the Destabilization of Society

2008-09-23 18:24:22 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...exotic derivatives and baskets who have, for the most part, zero interest in the personal financial portfolio of Jane in Iowa or Joe in Kansas I am really amazed to see the dominance of greed in corporate America and the lack of corporate social responsibility. Risk taking and split second trading does little for any small. individual...
 
Tags: society, greed, safe money, money, money market funds, democratic society, average joe investor, free society, joe
 
 
 
 
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Hijacking in New Zealand

2008-02-20 07:26:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...exotic location? Turns out that's just not true; there still can be traditional non-terrorist hijackings And even more interesting, the media coverage reflected that. Read the links above. They're calm and reasoned. There's no mention of the T-word. We're not all cautioned that we're going to die. If anything, they're recommending that...
 
Tags: traditional, traditional non-terrorist hijackings, demand passage, demand, airplane, media coverage, weeks ago, exotic location, zealand
 
 
 
 
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Is it safer to fly or drive? (and why you can't do one without the other)

2008-05-01 00:00:00 by Kevin Bowers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...exotic destination, but because they live in Montana and have to fly to the wedding. Like several other states, Montana has refused to comply with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had threatened to prevent residents from those states from using their state-issued driver's licenses as...
 
Tags: dhs, dhs recently, 11th, real, 11th deadline, homeland security, airport security, rsa laboratories, research scientist
 
 
 
 
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Why Is ISO2700x Hot in UK, but Not in US?

2008-05-16 11:36:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Exotic like a Hungarian chick, but just as relevant Any ideas? UK scene, any ideas? Do you care for ISO17799 at all? As a useful document to read or a something to be certified in About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: iso17799 documents, security, security management, iso17799, security manager worth, set national standards, ideas, opposite true, countries
 
 
 
 
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Starbucks, AT&T Brick Loyalty Card Service Launch

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2008-06-03 13:34:56 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...exotic milk options or brewed coffee refills by themselves or with Wi-Fi on top. If you choose Wi-Fi, you're redirected to SBC servers (for nostalgia's sake), at which point everything seems to fall apart Trying two separate cards, I was unable to set up an account and get the cards to take. The errors weren't clearly spelled out. Clearly,...
 
Tags: starbucks, card, card rewards program, card rewards, starbucks cards accounts, cards, starbucks card, rewards, choose wi-fi
 
 
 
 
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NSA Forms

2008-08-06 07:26:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...exotic to the pedestrian, but even the most prosaic form shines some light into the workings of No Such Agency
 
Tags: agency, national security agency, prosaic form shines, memory hole, russ kick, forms, information act, blank copies, range
 
 
 
 
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The Fallacy of Self-Fulfilling CEP Use Case Studies

2008-08-06 15:30:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...exotic birds making background music to keep me entertained Back to CEP and EPTS, there are folkswho appear to believethey maydefine CEP by the current use cases from self-described CEP vendors. Frankly speaking, I am puzzled by the bottom-up approach Thebottom-up approachis a bit like saying We have a lot of prototype rockets being built, so...
 
Tags: cep, cep products, believethey maydefine cep, detect, liketo detect fraud, cep vendors, current generation products, complex events, define
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing August's Threatscape

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2008-09-10 06:57:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...exotic it is for them to have any email that they provide hacked into and the accounting data sent back to them 07. The Russia vs Georgia Cyber Attack Event of the month? Could be, but just like every "event of the moth" everyone seems to be once again restating their "selective retention" preferences. What is selective retention anyway?...
 
Tags: malware, facebook malware campaigns, usefulness pinch malware, banker malware kits, malware campaigns, botnet, diy botnet kit, distribute malware, banker malware
 
 
 
 
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Stop Me if This Sounds Familiar

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2008-11-02 22:30:30 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop