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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...sales to the Middle East Both trips were part of the company's effort to tap into the growing -- and often legally murky -- market for selling weapons from former Eastern Bloc countries to the Middle East and Afghanistan Ex-Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., is helping broker deals between Russian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Do you trust the merchants to protect your credit cards?

2007-12-11 09:01:26 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...sale and a truncated receipt, rather than requiring merchants to keep the data for an extended amount of time. The letter further stated that, If all merchants took advantage of this option, credit card companies and their member banks would be the only ones with large caches of data on hand, and could keep and protect their card numbers in...
 
Tags: card industry, card, payment card industry, credit card, merchants, credit card companies, provide merchants, merchants change, security
 
 
 
 
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Embedding Malicious IFRAMEs Through Stolen FTP Accounts

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2008-03-03 10:14:01 by HASH0x8b0b9bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sale" as usual, as usual in the sense of the hundreds of other such propositions currently active online. And if we're to use an analogy on its importance as a event, it's like your smell receptors, namely the more you use a particular fragnance, the less you're capable of sensing it since you're getting used to the smell. In this line of...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data
 
 
 
 
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Sitting on your hands is not an option - FUD, Compliance, what will it take to sell security?

2008-03-13 00:17:43 by HASH0x84729f8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...sale through What does drive the security sale? Over my years in security I have seen the answer change from FUD to compliance. There was a time when to sell security you would ask your customer, what would happen to your business if your network was brought down? What would happen if your IP was stolen? What would the negative publicity of...
 
Tags: security breach, security breach scare, security, security breach cost, security purchase, security industry, provide security, industry, real live security
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 22:08:39 by HASH0x8b4586c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...sale prices. Too many companies are stuck in a purgatory of a slow death by a thousand little cuts or Chinese water torture as they fade into obscurity or irrelevance. As a result my prediction is we are going to see more companies go out of business ala Lockdown Networks, rather than see successful exits by many companies. Yes there will...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 20:16:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...sale prices. Too many companies are stuck in a purgatory of a slow death by a thousand little cuts or Chinese water torture as they fade into obscurity or irrelevance. As a result my prediction is we are going to see more companies go out of business ala Lockdown Networks, rather than see successful exits by many companies. Yes there will...
 
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New DIY Malware in the Wild

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2008-04-29 16:06:55 by HASH0x8b1f28c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Sale Yet Another Malware Cryptor In the Wild DIY Malware Droppers in the Wild More Malware Crypters for Sale A Multi-Feature Malware Crypter
 
Tags: diy malware, malware, diy malware droppers, do-it-yourself malware, novice malware coder, malware authors, source malware, malware loader, multi-feature malware crypter
 
 
 
 
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Two HSBC breaches with similar circumstances

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2008-06-02 09:40:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sale by children playing in the street Reference URL CTV News Toronto Wigan Observer Report Credit CTV News Toronto and Richard Bean at the Wigan Observer Response From the online sources cited above In Canada A Richmond Hill man was driving in his neighbourhood Saturday night when he spotted a bank bag full of cancelled cheques on the...
 
Tags: customers, bank customers, bank, bank officials, bank bag, bag, bank branch after-hours, street bank hsbc, street
 
 
 
 
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UltimateBet cheating goes undetected for almost 21 months

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2008-06-04 10:55:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...sale of the business to Tokwiro in October 2006 Evan] Shouldn't an information security and risk assessment be conducted as part of the acquisition and integration? If so, then wouldn't a code review of the proprietary software that came with the acquisition be included? This is the proprietary software that really drives the purpose of the...
 
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