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Data Mining to Detect Pump-and-Dump Scams

2008-08-14 06:10:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...trades that exhibit certain behaviour patterns What this self-learning behavioural engine does is look at the different attributes of the event, not necessarily about the computer or where you are logging on from but about the actual transaction, the trade, the amount of the trade," said Mr Tancredi For example have you liquidated all of your...
 
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
...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 of most popular stories. In one of a series of mistakes here, the story had no date on it which means Googles algorithm for assessing popularity didnt have a way to...
 
Tags: stock, trigger stock trades, automation, story, executes stock trades, web traffic, wall street journal, googles news service, virtual machine movement
 
 
 
 
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Algo Trading on Your BlackBerry?

2008-06-05 13:12:02 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...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 BlackBerry I cant want to run a next generationalgo...
 
Tags: blackberry, view, view account alerts, etrade account, etrade, etrades mobilepro, check, mobilepro demo, accounts
 
 
 
 
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Quantitative Analysis = "Highly" Technical Analysis (?)

2007-02-07 09:34:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...Trades: 24 Textual Data: 2 Higher Moments: 2 Regime Shifts: 10 Volatility: 20 Extreme Events: 10 Momentum / Reversal: 31 Trends: 28% Modeling Methodologies Used Shrinkage / Averaging: 9 Regime Shifting: 4 Nonlinear: 7 Contegration : 7 Cash Flow: 17 Behavioral: 16 Momentum / Reversal: 28 Regression: 36% As seen in the survey results, trends,...
 
Tags: technical, technical analysis, quantitative analysis, quantitative, technical indicators, indicators, survey results, results, reversal models
 
 
 
 
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What Constitutes A $7B Control Failure?

2008-01-25 16:01:33 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...trades resulting in an estimated loss of roughly $7.2 billion In further coverage , we hear that the bank has apologized to share holders, filed legal claims against Kerviel, and promised the public that the incident does not suggest any larger issues with the companys risk management. The Wall Street Journal however, follows up with a story...
 
Tags: wall street journal, control failure, risk, 31-year-old jrme kerviel, companys risk management, story, kerviel, story reminds, coverage
 
 
 
 
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Offline payment service trades on Web privacy risks

2008-02-06 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473bc8 in Network World on Security
 
A recently launched offline payment service for Web retailers, using the "buy now, pay later" concept, now has 300 retailers using the service, as Web stores look for ways to reach consumers who fear for the safety of their identity online
 
Tags: service, offline payment service, retailers, web retailers, identity online, reach consumers, web stores, recently, fear
 
 
 
 
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What can CISOs learn from the Societe Generale debacle

2008-02-19 09:17:17 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...trades that he hid for months by allegedly hacking into the computers of the bank and creating fraudulent transactions to hide his tracks. The combined trading positions he built up totaled some 50 billion, or $73 billion. While this level of exposure going unnoticed boggles the mind, none of it could have happened without a fundamental...
 
Tags: security, formal security strategy, societe generale, security technology, external security challenges, implement security, access, security products, access users
 
 
 
 
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Analysis: Cotton Traders Hack A Warning For Business

2008-06-17 10:39:03 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...trades on the net. The security breach took place in January, although it was only confirmed by the company earlier this month, and attracted media attention over the last few days The company maintains that the data was encrypted. for their sakes I hope that is was. Im a little surprised of how long it took for the company to disclose this...
 
Tags: business, cotton traders, mail-order business, company maintains, company, british business, sales, article link, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Do we need a farm system in the security industry?

2008-07-21 16:17:30 by HASH0x8b5e478 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...trades suite cheaper than buying best of breeds individually, at the end of the day it is hurting our security. If you are really serious about securing the environment there is a world of difference between buying the bundle of goodness versus best in class tools Ultimately though, what are we to do about getting better security pros in the...
 
Tags: security, security administrators, security staffers fail, security positions, security people, security pros, lisa hits, people, lisa
 
 
 
 
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Schneier Misquote

2008-08-02 10:44:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...trades freedom for security theatre deserves both freedom and security less than the first man I like that quote, "we must remember that we have more power than our enemies to worsen our fate". Terrorists can, at most, take away my life. They can never take away my freedom. Only my government has the power to do that Anyone have any better...