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76Service - Cybercrime as a Service Going Mainstream

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2008-08-13 08:08:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...stocks and subscribers bought a group of them, betting they could gain enough personal information from their portfolio of infected machines to make a profit, mostly by turning around and selling credentials on the black market. (In some cases, subscribers would use a few of the credentials themselves). Some machines, like some stocks, would...
 
Tags: 76service, service, malware, malware kit, cybercrime, malware botnet, botnet, mysterious 76service server, web service
 
 
 
 
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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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LPL Financial reports eighteen compromised logons

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2008-05-20 08:56:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...stocks Reference URL Maryland State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit Maryland State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above We write to advise you of incidents in which hackers compromised the logon passwords of fourteen financial advisors and four assistants of LPL Financial ("LPL Evan] How does a...
 
Tags: lpl financial, lpl, lpl financial recently, lpl recently, login information, information, information security governance, information privacy, data
 
 
 
 
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Algo Trading on Your BlackBerry?

2008-06-05 13:12:02 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...stocks without their owners permission Check out E*Trades Mobile*Pro where customers can view all their accounts and watch lists; trades stocks and options; view streaming quotes, orders, and breaking news; monitor their portfolio and view account alerts; stay on top of markets as well as transfer money between accounts - all from their...
 
Tags: blackberry, view, view account alerts, etrade account, etrade, etrades mobilepro, check, mobilepro demo, accounts
 
 
 
 
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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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VCsChoosing How to Invest

2008-08-04 10:23:13 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...stocks I would guess that every one of you reading this blog have a stock portfolio with 5 to 10 individual stocks or mutual funds. There are more than 5,000 publicly listed companies to choose from, and another 5,000 mutual funds. But, out of 10,000 possible companies you chose 10 to invest in. Why? Why did you reject the other 9,990...
 
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Do people still fall for spam?

2006-10-28 19:14:06 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...stocks being traded rose as high as 81%. The study also calculated the percentage that investors are losing. On average, investors who fall for the scam are losing 5.25% in the two day period following the stock touting. However for the top 20% of stock scams, investors lose as much as 8% value. . Unfortunately people are still falling for...
 
Tags: spam, spam messages, stock, people, stock scams, company stock, messages, whilst people, lucrative spam practices
 
 
 
 
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U.S. indicts 11 over pump-and-dump stock spam

2008-01-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x89801ac in Network World on Security
 
Eleven people, including one of the top spammers in the world, were indicted on Thursday for allegedly sending millions of unsolicited e-mails intended to inflate the price of Chinese penny stocks
 
Tags: chinese penny stocks, top spammers, e-mails, millions, people, thursday, world, price, allegedly
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!

2008-01-08 11:55:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...stocks into a free fall with his cyberattack, [E*Trade] Bankruptcy risk cannot be ruled out. This rumor, by a competing financial institution, basically wiped out countless millions of dollars in investor equity in a few short minutes. Amazing Of course, E*Trade is not going bankruptany more than Citigroup is going bankrupt, but the...
 
Tags: etrade, etrade financial, etrade bank, etrade financialis, etrade stocks, cyberattack, etrade bankruptcy risk, market, free market
 
 
 
 
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Mike Rothman - The 419

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2008-02-08 06:31:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog