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FBI Announces They Operated and Closed the Dark Market Site

2008-10-15 11:00:31 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...marketplace site for hackers, Dark Market. The article in Wired claims the Feds were tracking hackers movements and acquiring intelligence so they could perform a sting operation and catch the criminals. Then they closed the site and publicly announced their involvement with it The FBI almost certainly closed DarkMarket in preparation for a...
 
Tags: site, market, dark market, fbi, marketplace site, hackers movements, hackers, hapless dinner guests, agatha christie scenario
 
 
 
 
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Price Discrimination in the Market for Stolen Credit Cards

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2008-06-03 07:23:29 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...marketing segment, where the site itself would have also been advertised to reach that very segment. What he's enjoying is the overall lack of market transparency and the fact that it's not a daily practice for someone to come across sites selling stolen credit card details, which is where the first proposition would take place. The second,...
 
Tags: price, price discrimination, volume basis, basis, market, average price, bank basis, volume basis propositions, credit card
 
 
 
 
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Using Market Forces to Disrupt Botnets

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2008-06-09 05:19:02 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...market forces be used to disrupt botnets anyway, and how relevant would this approach be in a real-life situation? As every other underground market propostion , buying botnets is no different than buying stolen credit cards, as long as your have multiple propositions to take into consideration, where the price ranges often vary over 100%...
 
Tags: botnets, disrupt botnets, malware, fight malware, market forces, online malware scanners, single pcs, pcs, successful botnets
 
 
 
 
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Producer Seeking Secondary Ticket Market Hacker

2007-12-06 17:00:35 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...markets (in particular using timing to buy lots of tickets all at once, based on our conversation) let me know and Ill forward his contact info to you Im a producer for a cable network and looking to do a story on the explosive growth of the secondary ticket market (Stubhub, Ebay, etc.) Im not interested in doing an extended debate on the...
 
Tags: secondary ticket market, world series tickets, tickets, forward, hannah montana concert, move forward, colorado rockies website, secondary ticket markets, talk
 
 
 
 
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Dave Cowan of Bessemer says mid-market is the new battleground for security

2008-03-10 07:36:33 by HASH0x8b554d0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...market and SMBs. Dave and Bessemer have invested in many security companies over they years and he has a well honed view into the space. His comments are that security is saturated at the top of the pyramid, meaning the Fortune 2000 and large government accounts. He thinks the real opportunity is at the mid-market. Not surprising given his...
 
Tags: security, dave, dave cowan, mid-market, bessemer, security companies, dave speaks, security talk, brad
 
 
 
 
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Dave Cowan of Bessemer says mid-market is the new battleground for security

2008-03-10 08:32:03 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...market and SMBs. Dave and Bessemer have invested in many security companies over they years and he has a well honed view into the space. His comments are that security is saturated at the top of the pyramid, meaning the Fortune 2000 and large government accounts. He thinks the real opportunity is at the mid-market. Not surprising given his...
 
Tags: security, dave, dave cowan, mid-market, bessemer, security companies, dave speaks, security talk, brad
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Market

2008-08-25 13:18:59 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...market can be seen in the tools space which, combined, almost doubled to $150-180 million. Top of list are two major acquisitions that closed in 2007: Watchfire's purchase by IBM (somewhere in the range of $120-150 million on 2006 revenue of $26 million) and SPI Dynamics's purchase by HP (for around $100 million on 2006 revenue of $21.2...
 
Tags: software, software security market, software security sectors, space, tools space, compare software security, software security sherpas, software security space, software security
 
 
 
 
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Capital Market CEP Fantasy Land

2008-06-23 13:38:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...marketing their wares as superbrains that can solvevery complicatedproblems and, at the same time,save WallStreet andThe Planet Let me be perfectly clearhere Wall Street. Listen very carefully There is nothing in any of the so called CEP productsin the market placethat is going to stop losses related to the subprime meltdowneffecting the...
 
Tags: cep, risk management methodologies, risk management, wall street, now-defunct bear stearns, time, jeffery schwartz implies, jeffery schwartz, subprime
 
 
 
 
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Capital Market CEP Fantasy Land

2008-06-23 13:38:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...marketing their wares as superbrains that can solvevery complicatedproblems and, at the same time,save WallStreet andThe Planet Let me be perfectly clearhere Wall Street. Listen very carefully There is nothing in any of the so called CEP productsin the market placethat is going to stop losses related to the subprime meltdowneffecting the...
 
Tags: cep, risk management methodologies, risk management, wall street, now-defunct bear stearns, time, jeffery schwartz implies, jeffery schwartz, subprime