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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
...seller to follow or entirely ignore economic behavior, and do what they feel like doing with this good which must on the other hand reach its market liquidity as soon as possible, else it becomes obsolete. The current market model can be further explained as a good example of competitive equilibrium Competitive market equilibrium is the...
 
Tags: price, average market price, market price, credit card, credit card details, details, market, competitive market equilibrium, credit card basis
 
 
 
 
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An Option with a Negative Value?

2006-07-28 08:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...seller (writer) pays the option buyer. This results into a "free lunch" as described by one of the posters (waiter222). The option buyer will always win out in this case. He can exercise and make money when "in-the-money". He also has an instant gain even when the option expires worthless due to the initial cash flow. Indeed it is unfair ...
 
Tags: option, negative option, option seller, option writer sells, option buyer, option position, negative, position, writer
 
 
 
 
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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...seller of the option and the issuer is the option buyer. When volatility increases, option prices increase as well. This added value stems from a higher possibility of going in-the-money. Conversely, a decrease in volatility will lower the option value. So if Credit Suisse was the one who "bought" the stock options via the reverse convertible...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments valuation volatility, valuation, volatility, decrease option, volatility increases
 
 
 
 
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Perimiter eSecurity buys e-mail compliance vendor

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Looking to expand its presence among New York financial companies, security services vendor Perimiter eSecurity has acquired Secure Electronic Communications Compliance Archival System (SECCAS), a small seller of e-mail management products
 
Tags: york financial companies, e-mail management products, seller, expand, seccas, presence
 
 
 
 
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www.e-victims.org

2008-01-17 16:24:56 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...seller, not the courier company to deal with the damage; the Sale of Goods Act means that what you receive must be of satisfactory quality; and if you spent between 100 and 30000 pounds then the Consumer Credit Act means that the credit card company should reimburse you The site has launched with content for e-shopping victims ( no Virginia ,...
 
Tags: credit card company, credit card, site continues, site, company, practical down-to-earth advice, down-to-earth advice, e-victims, org
 
 
 
 
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Got Sopranos? Yet another thing I did not know as much about

2007-11-26 20:55:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...seller! There is every reason to believe that terrorist organizations are using these methods to finance their nefarious goals The point to note here is this : there is a lot of money at stake. This makes cardholder data a target in this illegal and very organized crime business. For companies handling cardholder data, being fully PCI...
 
Tags: cardholder data, crime business, crime, card swipe data, recent trip, visa gold, breaches, nefarious goals, arms dealers
 
 
 
 
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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
...seller FTP accounting data can be imported, and once verified, a statistical output for the automated process of logging in and embedding the IFRAME is provided IFRAMEs are automatically embedded within .php; .html; .asp; .htm extensions embedding iframes through stolen FTP accounts is a fad, purchasing and selling shells/web backdoors and...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data
 
 
 
 
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Stealing from Bookstores

2008-03-13 13:06:23 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...seller list of stolen books. Its origins still mystify me. It might have belonged to an unscrupulous used bookseller who sent the homeless out, Fagin-like, to do his bidding, or it might have been another book thief helping a semi-illiterate friend identify the valuable merchandise
 
Tags: piece, folded-up piece, charles bukowski, bukowski, books, paper, book thief, authoritative top, values
 
 
 
 
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The RSA Conference

2008-04-22 06:35:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...seller, and it's just not happening. The sellers can't explain what they're selling to the buyers, and the buyers don't buy because they don't understand what the sellers are selling. There's a mismatch between the two; they're so far apart that they're barely speaking the same language This is a bad thing in the near term -- some good...
 
Tags: non-security companies, companies, end-user security industry, security industry, information security conference, information security, automobile companies, security companies, security
 
 
 
 
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The RSA Conference