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Happy Birthday Spam! Wish you many unhappy returns!

2008-05-03 15:41:18 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...returns clipped from news.yahoo.com For 30 years now, youve been getting spam WASHINGTON (AFP This week, the world will mark an anniversary that has changed the face and other anatomical regions of email inboxes everywhere: the first known spam email was sent 30 years ago on Saturday But the message sent on May 3, 1978 by a...
 
Tags: spam, unhappy returns, spam email, west coast, email inboxes, anatomical regions, intent, world, marketer
 
 
 
 
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The Order of Diminishing Returns

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2008-06-17 21:41:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...returns On a related note I have identified four different states of security organizations considering competence of employees and budget availability. Of course there are in-between states. I have considered only the extremes
 
Tags: complex security framework, firewall rules, firewall, security organizations, start-up, layers, start-up companies, provide continuous security, classic management term
 
 
 
 
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Union Mortgage loan applicant information found in dumpster

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2008-02-29 14:14:23 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...returns Breach Description Thousands of pages of sensitive loan application information were discovered in a dumpster behind a pizza shop in Cleveland, Ohio. The documents were allegedly discarded by employees of Union Mortgage Services of Cleveland, Inc., which has closed down after failing to pay taxes or failure to file tax returns ...
 
Tags: information, collect personal information, personal information, union mortgage, loan, loan companies continue, loan companies, union mortgage services, background information
 
 
 
 
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NY STAR: An accident waiting to happen

2006-03-02 22:37:31 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...returns to the local assessor In New York City, they want SSNs from everybody. Just because its authorized by law (in the NYC Administrative Code ) doesnt mean its a good idea. Everywhere else, theyre only collecting SSNs or income tax returns from low-income seniors Its hard to justify leaving so much personal financial information sloshing...
 
Tags: information, store information, income information, personal information, personal financial information, public, public record agency, public information, assessors
 
 
 
 
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Mike Rothman - The 419

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2008-02-08 06:31:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...returns for investors for over 115 years - through a number of bull and bear markets and the most volatile conditions. Our approach has generated real long term growth in both capital and income When you invest in SIT you are buying shares in a company that invests in the stocks and shares of companies on the world's major stockmarkets. Your...
 
Tags: capital investment funds, capital investment, funds, capital, magellan capital funds, direct capital funds, investment, stockmarket investment, scottish investment staff
 
 
 
 
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University of California Irvine students are hit with mysterious breach

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2008-04-10 12:14:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...returns to gain refunds Reference URL University of California, Irvine Identity Theft Alert Orange County Register Report Credit University of California, Irvine Response From the online sources cited above UC Irvine police say 7,000 current or former graduate students could be at risk of identity thieves who already used stolen data to...
 
Tags: irvine, irvine police department, police, students, contact campus police, credit agencies, credit, irvine police, medical students
 
 
 
 
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New faces and predictions for the New Year...

2008-01-22 22:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...returns 254 matches. A query of NVD without selecting any vendor, and choosing "Start Date= January 2007", and "End Date=December 2007" returns 6532 matches. If my math is correct, that states that Microsoft was responsible for 3.8885 percent of the vulnerabilities in the NVD in 2007. My prediction is those same queries and same math for 2008...
 
Tags: sdl team, team, sdl, sdl blog crew, cve, cve vulnerabilities, microsoft, single prediction, microsoft products
 
 
 
 
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Personal information from two Colorado mortgage companies found in dumpsters

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2008-05-07 22:20:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...returns, pay stubs, Social Security numbers, and other personal information Breach Description ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office is advising anyone who has used Cove Creek Mortgage to watch out for identity theft after hundreds of mortgage files were dumped in a public trash bin over the weekend Reference...
 
Tags: mortgage files, numerous mortgage files, personal information, information, complete mortgage files, personal information poorly, files, cove creek mortgage, cove creek
 
 
 
 
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Sun Is A Magic Formula Stock

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2008-06-26 18:29:33 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...returns on capital) but only when they were available at bargain prices (priced to give us a high earnings yield) ? What would happen? Well, I'll tell you what would happen: We would make a lot of money! (Or as Graham might put it, "The profits would be quite satisfactory A lot of the time you find pretty boring companies doing something...
 
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Hedge Funds Semantics

2006-08-25 01:48:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...returns due unconventional strategies and assets employed. These unconventional strategies and assets result into low correlations with conventional funds I guess a lot of people assume that hedge funds are supposed to be safe investments because of the word "hedge". But if these funds are meant to safe in the first place, they should be...