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Fear of Internet Predators Largely Unfounded

2008-02-26 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...risky as a lot of other things that parents do without concern, such as driving kids to the mall and leaving them there for two hours," Wolak said Internet predators are pedophiles Finding: Internet predators don't hit on the prepubescent children whom pedophiles target. They target adolescents, who have more access to computers, more...
 
Tags: internet, internet predators, internet predators represent, predators, sex crimes, sex, child, child predators, internet predators trick
 
 
 
 
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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 05:57:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...risky larger gain. But when faced with a loss, about 70 percent chose the risky larger loss over the sure smaller loss This experiment, repeated again and again by many researchers, across ages, genders, cultures and even species, rocked economics, yielded the same result. Directly contradicting the traditional idea of "economic man,"...
 
Tags: security, loss, risky loss, risky larger loss, gain, risky larger gain, security purchase, directly, security directly
 
 
 
 
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Williamson County Schools learns of breach reported nine months ago

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2008-07-13 00:12:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...risky information security behaviors at Williamson County Schools. This risky behavior just so happened to expose personal information online. What other risky behaviors will be addressed at the school district Now about the Liberty Coalition's role. I appreciate the motives of Aaron Titus and the Liberty Coalition. He maintains the...
 
Tags: school, school students, schools, williamson county schools, williamson county, county, breach, school authorities, school district
 
 
 
 
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Hedge Funds Semantics

2006-08-25 01:48:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...risky investments. They invest in derivatives, employ unconventional trading strategies, and are usually greatly leveraged... All for the pursuit of extraordinary profits. A lot of hedge funds have come and gone and the survival rate is not encouraging. So why are they called "hedge" funds in the first place When we hear the word "hedge" we...
 
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Running Government Finances Like a Bank

2006-08-08 08:56:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...risky and more more susceptible to something going wrong. Thus, the IMF issued guidelines on Public Debt Management (PDM In a nutshell PDM takes Asset-Liability Management best practice from banks and insurance companies and applies them in managing government debt. This makes sense since the biggest financial portfolio in a country is the...
 
Tags: public debt, public debt management, government, debt, public debt portfolio, government debt, financial, financial markets, issue
 
 
 
 
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Risk Preferences in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

2008-04-17 06:20:51 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...risky prospects. If such patterns of economic choice are adaptive, risk preferences should reflect the typical decision-making environments faced by organisms. However, this approach has not been widely used to examine the risk sensitivity in closely related species with different ecologies. Here, we experimentally examined risk-sensitive...
 
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Risky by association

2007-12-26 16:14:25 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
The holiday season gave media and industry one more opportunity to discuss Mattels massive product recalls this year, and admittedly, I still find myself interested in the story. In this case, it was the World Business Council for Sustainable Developments article calling out Mattels Epiphany at Christmas The revelation: If it's got your...
 
Tags: responsibility, responsibility organization, oversee product quality, information security issues, security, quality, supply chain partners, social responsibility, epiphany
 
 
 
 
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Iowa DNR loses personal information on 7,000

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2007-12-19 14:22:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...risky manner. This is nothing more than an attempt to minimize the situation and draw attention away from the true problem(s He said the state has not received any reports of fraud or identity theft and doubts that it will The DNR is paying for a year's worth of credit-monitoring service for the workers. The workers have been told to...
 
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Basel II could be risky for the economy, the Bank of England warns

2008-01-02 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Its reliance on credit-rating agencies to establish asset risk could put banks on a cyclical roller coaster
 
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Betting on the SOA Horse

2008-01-05 05:49:38 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...risky business. Exactas and trifecta have enormous payouts, but the odds are remote. Very few people win these exactas or trifectas. I recall warm memories of my years inNew Orleanswhen I was a university student at Tulane University . We loved the excitement (and the beer!)at Jefferson Downs, in Kenner, Louisiana. We took our dates to the...
 
Tags: horse, soa horse, technology horse races, races, cep, cep horse, technology horse racingis, real horse races, horse fast