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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...options via the reverse convertible structure, a decrease in volatility will decrease option value and will result into a mark-to-market loss on their end Now as market makers (structurers), shouldn't Credit Suisse be hedging their exposure? The problem with this particular structure is that the option is not based on one stock. It issued...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments valuation volatility, valuation, volatility, decrease option, volatility increases
 
 
 
 
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51,000 Current and former Agilent Technologies employees at risk

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2008-03-25 09:13:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Options Solutions Victims Current and former Agilent employees Number Affected 51,000 Types of Data names, Social Security numbers, home addresses and details of stock options and other stock-related awards Breach Description A laptop containing sensitive and unencrypted personal data on 51,000 current and former employees of Agilent...
 
Tags: agilent, agilent technologies, agilent vendor march, vendor, administer agilent, agilent alert, agilent employees, stock, stock options
 
 
 
 
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The Random JS Malware Exploitation Kit

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2008-01-15 20:49:56 by HASH0x8be7244 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...options.cgi?user id=3335213046&socks=6267&version id=904&passphrase=fkjvhsdvlksdhvlsd&crc=3c64cb2e uptime=00:00:58:38 back39409404.com/cgi-bin/options.cgi?user id=3335213046&socks=6267&version id=904&passphrase=fkjvhsdvlksdhvlsd&crc=3c64cb2e uptime=00:00:58:35 The following files are partly accessible at the still active C&C's, the first...
 
Tags: random, malware, random attack approach, cgi, local malware locations, cgi-bincert, cgi-binss, cgi-binoptions, cgi-binpstore
 
 
 
 
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Shimmy's theory of security company relativity, part 2

2008-04-11 19:57:08 by HASH0x8471f00 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...options, this may be the right choice. Get out with your skin on and live to fight another day. I am sure we are going to see lots of these kinds of deals that will represent real bargains to the acquiring companies 4. Just keep limping along, praying for a miracle - There is always the chance that either the market "discovers" something new...
 
Tags: growth, current revenue growth, companies, larger companies, company, security companies, rapid growth phase, hard, merger options
 
 
 
 
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Shimmy's theory of security company relativity, part 2

2008-04-11 20:57:07 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...options, this may be the right choice. Get out with your skin on and live to fight another day. I am sure we are going to see lots of these kinds of deals that will represent real bargains to the acquiring companies 4. Just keep limping along, praying for a miracle - There is always the chance that either the market "discovers" something new...
 
Tags: growth, current revenue growth, companies, larger companies, company, security companies, rapid growth phase, hard, merger options
 
 
 
 
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An Option with a Negative Implied Volatility?

2006-08-14 06:27:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...options have negative implied vols Here's my take on the subject matter Since implied volatilities are derived values, based on observed market parameters and a model or 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...
 
Tags: negative, negative results, market, market parameters, volatility measure, model, subject matter, option, arbitrage opportunity
 
 
 
 
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Lost Tennessee Tech flash drive affects 990 students

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2008-01-17 10:14:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...options to encrypt confidential data, and most (if not all) major flash memory manufacturers offer encryption options to fit the need (for instance, the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus Personally, I haven't evaluated any of the built-in vendor solutions, so I can't comment on their effectiveness Past Breaches September, 2007 - Tennessee Tech...
 
Tags: flash, flash drive, ban flash, 16gb flash drive, students, confidential data, data, students personal information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-02-25 [del.icio.us]

2008-02-26 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...options 3.2 Describe log analysis tools 3.3 Describe security event notification options 3.4 Where and how is logging integrated into XSG? 3.4.1 How are the logs secu Musings on Information Security :: Application Due Care Often I hear phrases such as "if the application is truly built secure inside-out, then there is no need for other...
 
Tags: log management, log, security, spire security viewpoint, risk management, practical risk management, application due care, application, security layers
 
 
 
 
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Anton Security Tip of the Day #14: More accesslog Fun: What Are You Not GETting?

2008-03-12 13:35:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...OPTIONS, HEAD, PUT or something - see a list here ) on our site, instead of just GET'ting the content (GET command is used by web browsers to retrieve the pages, while POST is used to upload content, press buttons, etc - at least in "web 1.0" land - see earlier tip #12 where POST request was found in proxy logs Here is one little artifact...
 
Tags: web server, server, web, web browsers, security, web discussion board, anton security tip, fun, modern apache