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Again On Breaches and Stock Price

2008-03-12 00:34:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Richard "IDS is dead" Stiennon throws a bomb : " First, esoteric matters like IT security really do not matter to the overall performance of a retailer. Customers, employees, stakeholders, apparently dont care. Second, no matter what the security industry says, you should not justify security spending based on potential impact of a data breach...
 
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
http://www.magicformulainvesting.comIn his book "The Little Book that Beats t he Market", Joel Greenblatt presents a formula for investing in companies based on two factors. The factors are from two of the most influential people in teaching investors how to think about investing - Ben Graham and Warren Buffett. From Graham, Greenblatt takes the...
 
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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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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Reputation Damage & Measurement

2008-08-22 14:33:56 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
Reputation damage can be one of the most difficult concepts to build measurements around. In fact, it can be difficult to develop the actual metrics for the measurements, as well. Damage to things like corporate reputation and goodwill and brand equity can be difficult to wrap even reasonable dollar estimates around (When I use FAIR, I really...
 
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
 
Unfortunately yes, they still do. According to a study conducted by the University of Oxford and Purdue University , the latest lucrative spam practices are 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...
 
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
 
The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems Quality of Protection Keynote Alexandria, VA October 27. 2008 Gunnar Peterson Managing Principal, Arctec Group Blog: http://1raindrop.typepad.com When Andy Ozment asked me over the summer to do this talk at QoP, I knew back in August that the topic I wanted to address...
 
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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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 11/30/07 Organization Yahoo! Corporation Contractor/Consultant/Branch Fidelity Investments Victims Persons participating in the Yahoo! employee stock purchase plan Number Affected Unknown Types of Data First name, last name, Social Security number and Yahoo! employee ID number Breach...
 
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