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Economics of secure software

2007-01-21 10:13:02 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...incentive in churning out a secure product in the current marketplace. Holding a software liable (to an extent) for not making a secure product can not only force the software vendor to fix the problem but also provide economic incentive for the software vendor to make secure product I agree with Schneier's view of holding vendor liable for...
 
Tags: software, secure, secure product, product, software vendor, software vendors, vendor, price, initial purchase price
 
 
 
 
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Do you trust the merchants to protect your credit cards?

2007-12-11 09:01:26 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...incentive for hackers to break into their systems in the first place." NRF proposes that credit card companies and their banks should provide merchants with the option of keeping nothing more than the authorization code provided at the time of sale and a truncated receipt, rather than requiring merchants to keep the data for an extended...
 
Tags: card industry, card, payment card industry, credit card, merchants, credit card companies, provide merchants, merchants change, security
 
 
 
 
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The new e-discovery rules - what they mean for your company

2006-11-30 06:26:27 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...incentive for companies to think about how they manage their electronic records and to put a formal retention program in place. Check back in a few days for several tips on how your company can show good faith to a federal court
 
Tags: rules, discovery, electronic discovery rules, address e-discovery issues, court, federal court, records, electronic records, company
 
 
 
 
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Prediction for 2008: Service providers avoid straightforward DTV answers

2008-01-04 21:12:01 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...incentive is to maintain confusion because thats an effective up-sell technique The simple story is that over-the-air (OTA) analog goes away, replaced by OTA digital. For OTA consumers, its just a matter of getting an ATSC tuner (built-in to a newer TV, or standalone with a government-subsidizied coupon The part that is different for every...
 
Tags: ota, digital ota customer, analog, analog customers, analog ota reception, analog cable customers, analog cable systems, analog channels, cheap basic analog
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Bazaar

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
The commoditization of bugs is a long-standing tradition in the software industry. It started when companies began offering a cash incentive for each critical bug a developer squashed. This practice of attaching intrinsic monetary value to bugs is the spiritual predecessor of the "pure" vulnerability markets that this article discusses
 
Tags: vulnerability markets, bugs, software industry, critical bug, intrinsic monetary, spiritual predecessor, cash incentive, article discusses, pure
 
 
 
 
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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
...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, structural unemployment will undermine the local industry, you'll end up with software engineers working at the local McDonald's during the day, and...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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Report: Google To Kill Off Domain Tasting

2008-01-24 19:56:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...incentive to engage in domain tasting withers away. Google has been quietly facilitating the tasting phenomenon for years now and profiting off of it, so they could see some revenue loss from such a move
 
Tags: domain, google, registration period, recent icann report, registration, stymie tasters, domains, day grace period, tasters
 
 
 
 
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Report: Google to Kill Off Domain Tasting

2008-01-24 19:56:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...incentive to engage in domain tasting withers away. Google has been quietly facilitating the tasting phenomenon for years now and profiting off of it, so it could see some revenue loss from such a move
 
Tags: domain, google, five-day grace period, registration period, recent icann report, registration, stymie tasters, domains, tasters
 
 
 
 
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blog backup online - out of beta

2008-03-14 11:47:16 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
Ive been using the blogbackuponline beta since last April It just works Now its out of beta. I recommend it. (Id recommend it even if Techrigy didnt offer a small incentive to share the experience
 
Tags: beta, recommend, techrigy, share, april, offer, incentive, experience
 
 
 
 
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New Banking Code shifts more liability to customers

2008-04-09 14:08:49 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...incentive to make a proper assessment as to the effectiveness of these protection measures. The new banking code allows the banks to further dump the cost of their omission onto customers When the person responsible for securing a system is not liable for breaches, the system is likely to fail. This situation of misaligned incentives is...