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Data breaches and gas prices..

2008-06-30 17:05:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...prices have increased a bit more, but not by much Also other interesting nuggets Almost 40% have not disclosed the number of records breached Theft, either internal or external, have been the primary reason for the breach. Wonder why we are not hearing this on the presidential campaign? A unified and national policy approach to this...
 
Tags: gas prices, lower gas prices, national policy approach, breaches, primary reason, presidential campaign, nuggets, half, bit
 
 
 
 
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Are Stolen Credit Card Details Getting Cheaper?

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2008-07-15 15:36:12 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...prices of stolen credit card details? The investments the cybercriminals or real life scammers ( through credit card cloning or ATM skimming ) put into the process of obtaining the details, or can we even talk about investments being made where an experienced scammer has just purchased 1GB of raw credit cards data from a novice botnet master...
 
Tags: price, average market price, market price, credit card, credit card details, details, market, competitive market equilibrium, credit card basis
 
 
 
 
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Ever get the feeling youre being had?

2008-05-22 14:50:08 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...prices so high when record profits are being made? Because they can. Simple as that clipped from www.philly.com Specter and Co. grill big-oil execs on record gas prices, companies profit With the consumers suffering so drastically, not only at the pump but big issues on heating oil for the elderly - especially in a state like mine,...
 
Tags: total profits, profits, oil, grill big-oil execs, record gas prices, prices, record profits, oil companies, computer security
 
 
 
 
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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
...prices remains a subject to speculation, what's important to point out is that in between the price discrimination used here on a good that in reality is a commodity good, is that they're cashing-in on the high profit margins since when investing the time and efforts into stealing these credit card numbers though banker malware infected PCs,...
 
Tags: price, price discrimination, volume basis, basis, market, average price, bank basis, volume basis propositions, credit card
 
 
 
 
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Medical records - the new frontier in data theft?

2008-06-23 13:02:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...prices all over the world for this data! The laws of supply/demand are taking over and making this a commodity. For example, not too long ago, prices for a valid credit card/bank card with a pin was $100 and now with the flood of such products, the prices have come down to $10-20 range The logical conclusion follows that criminals are...
 
Tags: data, medical records, data breaches, sensitive data, credit card, valuable data, bank account information, prices, active threat
 
 
 
 
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Wakeup Call for Risk Management

2008-09-19 10:11:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...prices were going up; the recipients of subprime loans could always flip that house to the next buyer. Everyone made money. As Chuck Prince of Citigroup famously put it during a July, 2007 interview : So long as the music is playing, youve got to keep dancing. Were still dancing. But one month later, the music stopped. Since then, Citigroup...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management debacle, risk management failure, failure, risk management realistic, business risk management, risk management models, risk, risk management situations
 
 
 
 
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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...prices, refuses to innovate and otherwise abuses its customer base. It should be no surprise that this sounds like pretty much every experience you've had with IT companies: Once the industry discovered lock-in, everyone started figuring out how to get as much of it as they can Economists Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian even proved that the value...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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Security Consultant Hacks: Size Matters

2007-12-20 05:16:07 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...Prices are generally in line with normally hourly rates but try to get them to make a fixed cost bid. Most of the smaller shops are terrible at estimating and you have a lot of leeway once you get them in to push a little scope creep on them, all within reason of course. Dont forget these people have to eat and they might not have another gig...
 
Tags: security consultant, security consultant hacks, security, web application security, security consultants, consultants, grumpy security guy, medium shops, employ
 
 
 
 
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Loads.cc's DDoS for Hire Service

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2008-03-11 21:35:53 by HASH0x8b581c0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...prices Loaded only those countries which are specified in the problem The country is determined to maxmind geoip When it ALL loaded all countries and the price of downloads is calculated separately for each country that is DE for the download you pay for a $ 0.2 PE 0.03 Prices for downloads can sometimes vary slightly this watch...
 
Tags: ddos, service, malware, services, hire services, web based malware, undercover ddos, loads, country