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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
 
Tags: microsoft, research, day, mcafee, rebounds, hit, days
 
 
 
 
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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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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...stock purchase plan Number Affected Unknown Types of Data First name, last name, Social Security number and Yahoo! employee ID number Breach Description On November 12th, 2007 Fidelity Investments inadvertently emailed a file containing personal information pertaining to Yahoo! employee stock purchase plan participants to the wrong...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Data Mining to Detect Pump-and-Dump Scams

2008-08-14 06:10:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...stock trading or analysis packages that only spotted a problem when money had gone Verisign's software is a module that brokers can add to their in-house trading system that alerts anti-fraud teams to look more closely at trades that exhibit certain behaviour patterns What this self-learning behavioural engine does is look at the different...
 
Tags: stock, penny stock, restrictive stock, data, trades tech stock, trades, fraud detection kit, alerts anti-fraud teams, trade
 
 
 
 
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Automation Gone Wrong

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2008-09-10 21:00:04 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...stock dump erroneously Apparently, many traders use automation software that trolls the Web for news stories and then, depending on what it finds, executes stock trades automatically. It was United Airlines bad luck that an old article about its 2002 bankruptcy -court filing showed up on Googles news service and somehow made it to the list...
 
Tags: stock, trigger stock trades, automation, story, executes stock trades, web traffic, wall street journal, googles news service, virtual machine movement