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Colorado penny stock spammer gets jail time

2008-04-30 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A federal judge has ordered convicted spammer Eddie Davidson to just under two years in prison for sending out a large volume of spam promoting watches, perfume and penny stocks
 
Tags: spammer eddie davidson, federal judge, penny stocks, spam, volume, perfume, prison, watches
 
 
 
 
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Modelling The Global Financial Meltdown

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2008-10-02 06:33:20 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
Yesterday I received a call from Penny Grosman , Senior Editor, Wall Street & Technology . Penny was interested in my opinion, Will risk management applications be the next killer app for CEP on Wall Street. I enjoyed talking with Penny. She caught up with me leaving a tailors shop in Chiang Mai, so I hope she did not mind hearing my stories of...
 
Tags: simple financial models, financial models, current financial crisis, crisis, simple, technology, wall street, main technology, folks
 
 
 
 
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LPL Financial reports eighteen compromised logons

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2008-05-20 08:56:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/6/08 Organization LPL Financial Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected 10,219 Types of Data names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth Breach Description LPL Financial recently notified the Maryland State...
 
Tags: lpl financial, lpl, lpl financial recently, lpl recently, login information, information, information security governance, information privacy, data
 
 
 
 
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Data Mining to Detect Pump-and-Dump Scams

2008-08-14 06:10:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
I don't know any of the details, but this seems like a good use of data mining: Mr Tancredi said Verisign's fraud detection kit would help "decrease the time between the attack being launched and the brokerage being able to respond Before now, he said, brokerages relied on counter measures such as restrictive stock trading or analysis packages...
 
Tags: stock, penny stock, restrictive stock, data, trades tech stock, trades, fraud detection kit, alerts anti-fraud teams, trade
 
 
 
 
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U.S. indicts 11 over pump-and-dump stock spam

2008-01-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x89801ac in Network World on Security
 
Eleven people, including one of the top spammers in the world, were indicted on Thursday for allegedly sending millions of unsolicited e-mails intended to inflate the price of Chinese penny stocks
 
Tags: chinese penny stocks, top spammers, e-mails, millions, people, thursday, world, price, allegedly
 
 
 
 
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Is the White House being "green" or covering up for the CIA?

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2008-01-18 01:18:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the erased CIA tapes. Were they erased to cover up torture techniques such as "waterboarding' or was it done in an attempt to conceal the identities of the interrogators? The debate is not just confined to the States, but goes on around the world . At least nobody is trying to say that they were...
 
Tags: white house, white house spokesman, white house routinely, cia tapes, tapes, include e-mails, washington post article, e-mails, federal statutes
 
 
 
 
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My New Favorite Tool Case Complete by Serlio Software

2006-10-17 04:54:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
After trying to do UML Use Cases in Microsoft Word (2003) for the past 2 weeks I finally decided that Ive had it. The way Word deals with lists is great for 99% of the population out there, but it drives you mad when you are trying to put in ordered lists that begin with a certain seed So after Word crashed numerous times (each time deleting...
 
Tags: word, word report, microsoft word, exception steps, move step, step, exception, word deals, serlio software
 
 
 
 
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A false accusation of hacking

2008-04-02 17:03:46 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
One particular style of phishing email runs something like this (edited for brevity From: service@paypal.com Subject: Your account was hijacked by a third party Dear PayPal valued account holder We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in your PayPal account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to believe that your account was...
 
Tags: paypal, paypal account, account, account holder, email, people, original email, gmail account, people receive
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 22:08:39 by HASH0x8b4586c in StillSecure, After All These Years
This post was originally going to be a wrap up on RSA. In thinking about that, the current overcrowded state of the security industry came to mind. This is a topic I have thought about before but in a AHA moment, I wanted to publish instead my own theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies. Like...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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