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Again On Breaches and Stock Price

2008-03-12 00:34:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...stock price. That theory is completely disproved by TJX Enraged? Think he is pushing it too far? Being illogical? Me too :-) I don't think TJX example just goes and "disproves" it; we don't really know how it works with breaches and stock prices (some say 4-8% down, some say none, some say 'major impact', whatever He then clarifies: " But...
 
Tags: security, security practices, stock price, data breach, impact, anyones security budget, potential impact, breach, breach impact assessment
 
 
 
 
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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
...stocks not necessarily great companies, just a great price (Graham famously called these "cigar butts"); from Buffett & Munger, Greenblatt uses the concept of looking for good companies The stocks are evaluated on price via an inverse P/E calculation; and "good" companies are defined as those earning a high return on capital. Then in true...
 
Tags: greenblatt, greenblatt list, sun, list, companies, companies based, greenblatt takes, formula, tech companies
 
 
 
 
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McAfee sees rise in stock scams, social engineering attacks

2008-10-13 21:20:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Security firm predicts scammers will try to use exploits to manipulate the stock market. Also: Expect more social engineering that piggybacks on big news events
 
Tags: stock market, news events, social, exploits, piggybacks, expect
 
 
 
 
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Patch releases push down Microsoft's stock, researcher says

2008-10-14 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Microsoft's stock price regularly takes a hit on the days the company issues security patches, but it typically rebounds the next day, according to research by McAfee
 
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McAfee sees rise in stock scams, social engineering attacks

2008-10-13 21:20:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Security firm predicts scammers will try to use exploits to manipulate the stock market. Also: Expect more social engineering that piggybacks on big news events
 
Tags: stock market, news events, social, exploits, piggybacks, expect
 
 
 
 
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51,000 Current and former Agilent Technologies employees at risk

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2008-03-25 09:13:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Stock & Options Solutions Victims Current and former Agilent employees Number Affected 51,000 Types of Data names, Social Security numbers, home addresses and details of stock options and other stock-related awards Breach Description A laptop containing sensitive and unencrypted personal data on 51,000 current and former employees of...
 
Tags: agilent, agilent technologies, agilent vendor march, vendor, administer agilent, agilent alert, agilent employees, stock, stock options
 
 
 
 
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Reputation Damage & Measurement

2008-08-22 14:33:56 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...stock price. Many researchers who identify themselves with the New School of Information Security (yours truly included) want to immediately look at stock price as a bell-weather metric for incident impact. I think this stems from our days of slinging FUD, back when we could scream Buy a firewall or well have an incident and youll be on the...
 
Tags: stock, helphire stock, reputation damage, reputation, stock price, damage, email, email account, malicious email
 
 
 
 
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Do people still fall for spam?

2006-10-28 19:14:06 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...stock spamming. You know those messages that warn you that company Xyz is hot right now and will make you a fortune? It turns out that spammers buy up stock before they send out the messages, then whilst people fall for the scam and buy the stock the spammers sell theirs at a profit. It sounds so simple (not to mention highly illegal) and yet...
 
Tags: spam, spam messages, stock, people, stock scams, company stock, messages, whilst people, lucrative spam practices
 
 
 
 
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The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

2008-11-18 22:47:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...stocks", comparing the price of the stock to value of the company's assets, and placing many, diversified bets on companies whose share price was below the total assets. Note that the businesses may have been of unremarkable quality, but when the price was right Graham would buy in, wait for it to rise and then sell. This was the dawn of...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security spends, safety information security, versus information security, information security budgets, information security budget, software security, software security space
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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