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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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The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

2008-11-18 22:47:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...prices are high, other days he is gloomy and prices are low. The market is a quote machine, for quoting prices, not a value assessment machine. Your job is to wait for the right price, and you are free to take as many passes and be as patient as you would like, Mr. Market will just show up the next day and throw out a new price Graham used...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security spends, safety information security, versus information security, information security budgets, information security budget, software security, software security space
 
 
 
 
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Localizing Cybercrime - Cultural Diversity on Demand Part Two

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2008-11-25 08:55:21 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Prices vary depending on the complexity of the topic covered Prices and deadlines Standard - the deadline is not more than 24 hours. Prices depend on the direction and guidance from the 'Order Term - work on your translation begins precedence. The price of the 50% more than the standard translation. Prices also depend on the direction and...
 
Tags: translation, standard translation, average translation, translation services, malware campaign, bankers malware campaign, prices, services, prices vary
 
 
 
 
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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