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What's the deal with the Barracuda offer for Sourcefire?

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2008-05-30 00:45:14 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...offer of $7.50 a share (in cash) for Sourefire. This values Sourcefire at about 200 million dollars and is a 13% premium over the Friday closing price. Of course this is well below Sourcefire's historical highs, but than again who is worth what they were a few months ago. I have a chart on the left that shows stock prices So what is behind...
 
Tags: sourcefire, barracuda offer, barracuda, offer, sourcefire board, sourcefire management team, million, dean, reason dean takes
 
 
 
 
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What's the deal with the Barracuda offer for Sourcefire?

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2008-05-29 23:50:21 by HASH0x8b56034 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...offer of $7.50 a share (in cash) for Sourefire. This values Sourcefire at about 200 million dollars and is a 13% premium over the Friday closing price. Of course this is well below Sourcefire's historical highs, but than again who is worth what they were a few months ago. I have a chart on the left that shows stock prices So what is behind...
 
Tags: sourcefire, dean, reason dean takes, sourcefire management team, barracuda, dean drako, values sourcefire, trend micro suit, suit
 
 
 
 
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IT Vendor VAR Relationships 101

2008-05-31 20:52:07 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...offer 2-4 tiers of partner programs depending on those 2 things, and each tier may have a different discount offered to the Reseller Commodity items may just require a Reseller to request to be in the Partner Program, and sign a couple of documents. More involved products, such as the network and security products we deal with, usually...
 
Tags: manufacturer, manufacturer directly, manufacturer partners, specific, specific product line, manufacturer sales rep, reseller, manufacturer relationship, resellers relationship
 
 
 
 
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Obstacles For Information Security & Risk Management

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2008-03-06 13:51:34 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...offer that this mode of thinking is not only an offense against Deming proverb #3 here, its also a sin against #1, 2, and 4 4. Excuses, such as Our problems are different ding*ding*ding*ding*ding We * have * to get over ourselves. I would offer that we must humbly view ourselves as just are another area of operational risk, without pretense...
 
Tags: risk, lesser category, demings lesser category, obstacles, operational risk, data, consumer data, industry, prescriptive isms
 
 
 
 
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What would you do with Ballmer's letter if you were a Yahoo shareholder

2008-05-03 23:24:54 by HASH0x8b6f148 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...offer for Yahoo. I had a look at the letter Steve Ballmer sent to Jerry Yang officially withdrawing the offer and offering his reasons why. Must say that it is rare that a document like this is made public. I must also say that if I were a Yahoo shareholder, it would be a key piece of evidence when I sued Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo...
 
Tags: yahoo, yahoo shareholder, yang, sued jerry yang, microsoft, ballmer, force microsoft, jerry yang, microsoft evidently
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing July's Threatscape

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2008-08-01 16:08:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...offer hundreds of thousands of pre-registered accounts at these providers, it's surprising that spam and phishing emails coming from legitimate email providers is increasing . The "vendors" behind these propositions are naturally starting to "vertically integrate" by offering value-added services for extra payments, namely, scripts to...
 
Tags: malware, profitable malware operations, malware authors, malware tools, malware coder, malware kit, malware infection, neosploit malware kit, spam
 
 
 
 
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Think "liability" if you want to stay out of trouble.

2008-08-04 01:12:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...offer after his bid became the winning bid. He probaly got cold feet While he should not have reneged on his offer to buy the property, it was a civil matter best left to civil remedy. Unfortunately, the auctioneers involved decided to take the law into their own hands and would not let the man leave the property. The man became anxious and...
 
Tags: liability, lawyers disregard liability, law firm, auctioneers stood, auctioneers, law, lawyers, property, people
 
 
 
 
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Eight Steps to Responsible Surfing

2008-08-07 00:30:41 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...offer. According to David Perry, familiarity with the latest threats, dangers, and recommended safety tips will allow surfers to make safe choices. Until you know whats out there, youre just flying blind. Without an education, youre wide open 2. Avoid suspect sites While criminals can infect even mainstream Web sites, sites such as gambling...
 
Tags: mainstream web sites, sites, adult internet sites, web sites, web surfers, surfers, surfers disable, security, computer security
 
 
 
 
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Online Finance Flaw: TIAA-CREF XSS & Potential CSRF

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2008-12-03 09:42:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
...offering analysis of any security flaws in online financial services, be assured I have engaged the service provider and offered what I believe to a reasonable amount of time to remedy this issue. Specifically, a minimum of two weeks and three unique contact attempts are made. Should the vendor offer a timeline in which the issue will be...
 
Tags: tiaa-cref, site, cross-site, tiaa-cref site, tiaa-cref security flaw, flaw, tiaa-cref security page, security page, cross site