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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
...factors that contribute to these future developments. Several more key points worth discussing Malware is no longer created, it's being generated The myth of someone reinventing the wheel, namely coding a malware bot from scratch is no longer realistic. Modern malware is open source, modular, localized to different languages, comes with...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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Why Some Terrorist Attacks Succeed and Others Fail

2008-02-28 06:25:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...factors determining the success or failure of a terrorist attack are those that occur in the pre-execution phases. While safeguards and controls at airports and rail stations are critical, they are most effective when coupled with factors that can be leveraged to detect the plot in the planning stages. These factors include Poor terrorist...
 
Tags: vigilant security services, vigilant, recent terrorist plots, terrorist plots, information fits, information, intelligence information, security services, law enforcement
 
 
 
 
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Sun Is A Magic Formula Stock

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2008-06-26 18:29:33 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...factors. The factors are from two of the most influential people in teaching investors how to think about investing - Ben Graham and Warren Buffett. From Graham, Greenblatt takes the concept of price, specifically looking for cheap stocks not necessarily great companies, just a great price (Graham famously called these "cigar butts"); from...
 
Tags: greenblatt, greenblatt list, sun, list, companies, companies based, greenblatt takes, formula, tech companies
 
 
 
 
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TRICARE breach affects 4,700 households

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2007-12-20 12:15:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...factors? I will assume it was a combination of factors On the one hand, I commend EDS for disclosing the breach to TRICARE, but on the other hand I am concerned about how long this problem may have gone un-noticed. Web applications acquiring, processing, accessing, storing or interacting with sensitive information in any manner require...
 
Tags: tricare, information, personal information, code review, by-line code review, information security, tricare beneficiaries, beneficiaries, breach
 
 
 
 
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In response to "Soft tokens aren't tokens at all"

2007-12-11 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...factors To some of your specific points, RSA SecurID hardware and software authenticators are both forms of multi-factor authentication. In the case of hardware authenticators, they are based on something you have (the physical authenticator) and something you know (your password or Personal Identification Number). Software authenticators...
 
Tags: authentication, multi-factor authentication, software authenticators, rsa securid hardware, rsa, form factors, factors, authentication types, blog entry
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Metamorphosis in 2007 - Trends and Developments

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2007-12-12 10:02:39 by HASH0x89e8bec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...factors contributed to the constantly shrinking period of time it takes for the phishers to come up with a fake email, and how come that despite all the public awareness put into the problem, people still fall victim to phishing scams? This article aims to provide an overview of the key factors that contributed to the growth and evolution of...
 
Tags: phishers embrace economies, phishers, article aims, article, people online, factors, key factors, people, popular spammers strategies
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...factors (age, obesity, smoking, other ailments and stressful life events), the researchers found that the people who were acutely stressed after the 9/11 attacks and continued to worry about terrorism -- about 6 percent of the sample -- were at least three times more likely than the others in the study to be given diagnoses of new heart...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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Is Risk-Based Security Really Possible?

2007-07-26 20:42:00 by Bryan in practical risk management
 
...factors that generally influence risk: Likelihood and Impact. But literal use of ALE for information security decisions is problematic to say the least The problem with ALE is that the numbers we plug into that formula are so baseless that the resulting calculation has no credibility. We probably inherited this simple conceptual model at...
 
Tags: security, information security, information security decisions, security management, security breach, breach, risk, wrong, ale hopelessly wrong
 
 
 
 
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Passwords, crocodiles, and air disasters

2008-05-15 08:45:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...factors caused the disaster, not technology. An all to real example highlighting the fact that not one single recent data breach has been because of a technology failure. It's human factors each and every time
 
Tags: password, pound, pounds, pound profit, twenty pounds, password anecdote, air disasters, human factors, martin
 
 
 
 
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Hedge Funds Semantics