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Just How Vulnerable Is Asia To The Current US Sub-Prime Crisis?

2007-08-31 07:59:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...Prime debt, they would probably say that the exposure is pretty small. In fact, Asian central banks also agree with this notion. Unlike some hedge funds with nearly 100% exposure to the sector, the percentage of exposure to US Sub-Prime trough CDO's are not significant enough to dent the bank's earnings and value. Income streams of these...
 
Tags: banks, asian central banks, asian banks, exposure, crisis situation, sub-prime trough cdo, situation, risk management, blown crisis
 
 
 
 
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Is Virtual Security Technology A Prime Target For Acquisition?

2008-05-15 02:12:08 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...Prime Target For Acquisition I'd love your opinion so please comment What triggered my blog on this topic was this rumor I heard today. Some buzz started today that one of the virtual security startups just agreed behind closed doors to be acquired by one of the big guys. But, who could it be? Reflex Security, Catbird, Blue Lane, Altor...
 
Tags: security, security challenges, virtual security startups, virtualization vendors, virtualization, acquire security technologies, virtual security technology, reflex security, acquisition
 
 
 
 
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Is Virtual Security Technology A Prime Target For Acquisition?

2008-05-15 02:12:08 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...Prime Target For Acquisition I'd love your opinion so please comment What triggered my blog on this topic was this rumor I heard today. Some buzz started today that one of the virtual security startups just agreed behind closed doors to be acquired by one of the big guys. But, who could it be? Reflex Security, Catbird, Blue Lane, Altor...
 
Tags: security, security challenges, virtual security startups, virtualization vendors, virtualization, acquire security technologies, virtual security technology, reflex security, acquisition
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...prime crisis in general that all good risk management professionals know, and should keep in mind as often as possible Accepting risk can offer substantial competitive advantages. While some argue that Goldman Sachs got lucky on many of its assumptions, the company has a history of aggressive, intelligent risk taking. The lesson here,...
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...Prime, Minister Helen Clark, confirmed that foreign intelligence agencies had tried to hack into government computer networks, but had not compromised top-secret data banks. The Chinese government has denied any involvement 3. In its annual report to Congress, The U.S.-China Economic And Security Review Commission said, Among the disruptive...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies
 
 
 
 
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Hackers quickly move to exploit Bhutto assassination

2007-12-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x84709b8 in Network World on Security
 
Within hours of yesterday's assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware makers exploited the breaking news to dupe users into downloading attack code, security researchers said Friday
 
Tags: attack code, assassination, dupe users, malware makers, security researchers, hours, friday, news, yesterday
 
 
 
 
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners

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2007-12-31 23:30:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...prime data for theft It had been sent by courier in September from Countrywide Assured signed for by HMRC but has since gone missing Evan] Not only does HMRC lose data in transit, but they also lose data in house It is understood that Countrywide Assured, which is based in Preston in Lancashire, has written letters to the 6,548 affected...
 
Tags: data, data cartridge, hmrc, lost hmrc cd, prime data, confidential data, hmrc breach, consult hmrc, hmrc encrypts
 
 
 
 
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Coral8: Event Stream Processing and Intrusion Detection

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2008-01-03 09:08:00 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
...prime-time,wehave been testing our home-grown UNIX domain socket adapter using Coral8 Java APIs. We are using this adapter to evaluate and demonstratestream processingwith intrusion detection systems (IDS) using event stream processing to reduce false alarms, detect derived situations from the raw intrusion event data, and feed a security...
 
Tags: event stream, event, properties, total ids properties, ids, coral8 java apis, ids screenshots, reduce false alarms, similar integration
 
 
 
 
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Estonia fines Russian for DoS 'cyber war'

2008-01-26 03:37:24 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
20 year old ethnic Russian man is the first person to be convicted for taking part in a "cyber war" against Estonia.Dmitri Galushkevich was fined 17,500 kroons (830) for an attack which blocked the website of the Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
 
Tags: cyber war, dmitri galushkevich, estonia, ethnic russian, reform party, kroons, website, attack, fined
 
 
 
 
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