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Spygate in Formula One racing Or: Dont forget your ancient floppy disks!

2008-03-27 16:16:37 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
...Formula One racing series has recently started in Australia and Asia. While high-speed enthusiasts in the US flock to NASCAR or the IndyCar series, the rest of the world is hooked on the F1 racing circus (kind of similar to the situation with football/soccer Anyway, as a security professional you have probably heard of last years massive data...
 
Tags: floppy disks, formula, data theft, massive data theft, data theft channels, teams, profile formula, teams simply, indycar series
 
 
 
 
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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
...formulainvesting.comIn his book "The Little Book that Beats t he Market", Joel Greenblatt presents a formula for investing in companies based on two 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...
 
Tags: greenblatt, greenblatt list, sun, list, companies, companies based, greenblatt takes, formula, tech companies
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 22:08:39 by HASH0x8b4586c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...formula. He had E=mc2, my formula is Where " A " equals the acquisition price of a security company, " R " equals the revenue of the company and " V " is the amount of venture money raised. The tilde squiggly line and the greater than sign are made up by me not to have a specific mathematical function but indicate that the amount of money...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 20:16:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...formula. He had E=mc2, my formula is Where " A " equals the acquisition price of a security company, " R " equals the revenue of the company and " V " is the amount of venture money raised. The tilde squiggly line and the greater than sign are made up by me not to have a specific mathematical function but indicate that the amount of money...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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FISMA Report Card News, Formulas, and 3 Myths

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2008-05-27 16:36:28 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...formula for how we lay out the day History of the marathon and Pheidippides Discussion of the race length and how it was changes so that the Queen could watch the finish World records and what our chances are for making one today Graphics of the race course showing the key hills and the sprint to the finish Talk about the womens marathon...
 
Tags: report card, fisma report card, fisma, fisma measures, fisma compliance title, fisma report cards, security, security programs based, framework
 
 
 
 
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An Option with a Negative Implied Volatility?

2006-08-14 06:27:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...formula, it is indeed possible to have negative results. But does it make sense? Intuitively, we would think that the volatility measure should only be positive and it does not make sense if negative. I think negative implied vols are a result of either a misspecification in the model, or mispricing by the market (an arbitrage opportunity, as...
 
Tags: negative, negative results, market, market parameters, volatility measure, model, subject matter, option, arbitrage opportunity
 
 
 
 
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2008-01-31 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...formula such as eat 5 leaves a day and your blood pressure will improve by 2% and you will loose 2 lbs in 4 weeks I am happy to acknowledge that lettuce is probably good for you and it makes sense to eat it but Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs 0x000000 - THE HACKER WEBZINE - Network Security Is So Nineties! Another year in which the...
 
Tags: enter encryption passphrase, encryption passphrase, security, security paradigm, protect cardholder data, data, webapplication security, passphrase, pci
 
 
 
 
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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...formula and started marketing New Coke. But my word processor has to really piss me off for a good long time before I'll even consider going through all that work and expense Lock-in isn't new. It's why all gaming-console manufacturers make sure that their game cartridges don't work on any other console, and how they can price the consoles at...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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Is Risk-Based Security Really Possible?

2007-07-26 20:42:00 by Bryan in practical risk management
 
...formula are so baseless that the resulting calculation has no credibility. We probably inherited this simple conceptual model at some point from the insurance industry, which is different from security management in at least two key ways They have statistics and actuarial models that predict the likelihood of certain events with reasonable...
 
Tags: security, information security, information security decisions, security management, security breach, breach, risk, wrong, ale hopelessly wrong