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Mike Rothman - The 419

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2008-02-08 06:31:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...investors for over 115 years - through a number of bull and bear markets and the most volatile conditions. Our approach has generated real long term growth in both capital and income When you invest in SIT you are buying shares in a company that invests in the stocks and shares of companies on the world's major stockmarkets. Your investment...
 
Tags: capital investment funds, capital investment, funds, capital, magellan capital funds, direct capital funds, investment, stockmarket investment, scottish investment staff
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Identity Theft

2008-08-16 09:58:30 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...investor Mason Hawkins (Longleaf Funds) where someone asked him about investing overseas. He answered that he does, but mainly in places where the British flag flew at some point, where there is a rule of law. Here is one example of what he is worried about and why investing in places where your assets have no legal protection does not give...
 
Tags: russian police, police, russian, russian government, government, identity theft, russian-style, hermitage, fund
 
 
 
 
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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...investors an option to call a company's stock. The bondholder is effectively the owner of the option and the issuer is the option writer. A reverse convertible bond gives investors higher interest rates but gives the issuer the right to put shares to the investor. In this case, the bondholder is the seller of the option and the issuer is the...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments valuation volatility, valuation, volatility, decrease option, volatility increases
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!

2008-01-08 11:55:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...investor equity in a few short minutes. Amazing Of course, E*Trade is not going bankruptany more than Citigroup is going bankrupt, but the information warfare by Citigroups Prashant Bhatia continues. Here is the lastest On January 7th, 2008, Bhatia changes his cyberattack slightlyand reiterates hisprediction that E*Trade will not be...
 
Tags: etrade, etrade financial, etrade bank, etrade financialis, etrade stocks, cyberattack, etrade bankruptcy risk, market, free market
 
 
 
 
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Wealthy investor information falls out of DHL van

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2008-01-14 12:04:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...investors Number Affected 200 Types of Data Financial details Breach Description A box containing sensitive paperwork related to 200 wealthy investors was found on the side of the road near Reading in Berkshire (UK). The box was in transit from a Prudential building in Reading to a secure storage facility in Essex when it apparently fell...
 
Tags: dhl van, dhl, dhl courier, van, dhl drivers, dhl courier van, secure, secure storage facility, prudential plc
 
 
 
 
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TJX Lessons

2008-01-22 14:11:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...investor confidence in TJX has remained largely unshaken TJX has said that in the 12 months since the breach was disclosed, it has spent or set aside about $250 million in breach-related costs many retailers , including top-tier ones like TJX, had not yet fully implemented the set of security controls mandated by the major credit card...
 
Tags: tjx lessons, tjx, breach, breach disclosures, written-about breach, security controls, affect revenue, set, stock prices
 
 
 
 
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BPL Powers Down

2008-05-05 09:59:43 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...investor, which gave more credence to their plans in 2006. The company had already rolled out some smaller markets, overcome equipment problems, and had a positive relationship with the ARRL, the amateur radio society, in resolving interference issues. Hams have been the biggest complaintants with the FCC over BPL because hams are primary and...
 
Tags: bpl, bpl equipment, bpl service, catalyze bpl, fcc, favorable fcc, oncor, network deployment, network
 
 
 
 
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TOP 10 - HP-EDS buy, Icahn strikes again, China quakes

2008-05-16 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b237d4 in Network World on Security
 
...investor Carl Icahn, who hasn't enjoyed a good proxy fight lately and so decided to try to shake up Yahoo's board
 
Tags: microsoft-yahoo saga, investor carl icahn, yahoo, news week, week, proxy fight, eds, massive earthquake, internet plays
 
 
 
 
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Information Security Reading List

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2008-05-16 17:12:39 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...Investor by Mohnish Pabrai. I posted on how much I enjoyed this book in the past, and James McGovern did as well. Key thing here for us infosec types is to decouple risk and uncertainty and focus more on the former. I have often said, that I have learned more about security from reading Buffett and Munger than anything in information security...
 
Tags: information security, security, information security books, books, web app security, information security literature, 21st century security, cyber security czar, software security
 
 
 
 
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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
...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 Buffett & Munger, Greenblatt uses the concept of looking for good companies ...
 
Tags: greenblatt, greenblatt list, sun, list, companies, companies based, greenblatt takes, formula, tech companies