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The Cipher on the Wall

2007-05-24 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...wall for 1024-bit RSA," one trade publication has declared in response to the recent announcement of the successful factoring of a 307-digit (1017-bit) number. As 1024 bits is the length of many RSA keys used in practice today, a short journalistic leap of fancy raises the specter of imperiled retail transactions on the Web. If there is...
 
Tags: wall, 1024-bit rsa, short journalistic leap, recent announcement, retail transactions, wholly unclear, cipher, fancy raises, trade publication
 
 
 
 
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Capital Market CEP Fantasy Land

2008-06-23 13:38:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Wall Street smoking This is the precise over hyping problem I have warned about repeatedly. Folks selling rule engines that perform basic calculations over a time window of streaming data have been marketing their wares as superbrains that can solvevery complicatedproblems and, at the same time,save WallStreet andThe Planet Let me be...
 
Tags: cep, risk management methodologies, risk management, wall street, now-defunct bear stearns, time, jeffery schwartz implies, jeffery schwartz, subprime
 
 
 
 
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Capital Market CEP Fantasy Land

2008-06-23 13:38:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Wall Street smoking This is the precise over hyping problem I have warned about repeatedly. Folks selling rule engines that perform basic calculations over a time window of streaming data have been marketing their wares as superbrains that can solvevery complicatedproblems and, at the same time,save WallStreet andThe Planet Let me be...
 
Tags: cep, risk management methodologies, risk management, wall street, now-defunct bear stearns, time, jeffery schwartz implies, jeffery schwartz, subprime
 
 
 
 
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The Case For Information Security

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2008-03-21 14:08:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
...Wall St doesn't ca re about a company being hacked. Don't believe me ? Check out TJX. 46 million card numbers. Biggest ever breach so far. The current stock price ? An all-time high right now The same with AT&T. 19000 Card numbers stolen Choicepoint shareholders punished the company for a while - and then forgave and forgot So...
 
Tags: attack, mdac attack, sql injection attack, card, card data, sql injection, million card, loss, pci
 
 
 
 
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Mothers, let your sons grow up to be hedge fund managers

2008-04-16 09:07:25 by HASH0x8b53ca0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Wall Street, instead of going to medical or law school. Later during the dot com bubble, many of the best and brightest were siphoned off from Wall Street to go into technology. It is obvious that bright young adults are going to follow the money. Well if that is the case, there is no alternative but to grow up and become a hedge fund manager...
 
Tags: billion dollars, billion, dollars, wall street, hedge fund managers, million dollars, hedge fund business, kids, smarter kids
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...Wall Street Journal about Goldman Sachs performance during the credit meltdown. The company has expectations of record income this year, while competitors are faltering left and right There are three important issues in this story and in the sub-prime crisis in general that all good risk management professionals know, and should keep in...
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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What Constitutes A $7B Control Failure?

2008-01-25 16:01:33 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...Wall Street Journal , Associated Press , Economist , etc.) were all over 31-year-old Jérôme Kerviel, the trader at Frances Société Générale who has apparently confessed to fraudulent 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...
 
Tags: wall street journal, control failure, risk, 31-year-old jrme kerviel, companys risk management, story, kerviel, story reminds, coverage
 
 
 
 
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N-DEx National Intelligence System

2008-03-31 06:13:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...wall between law enforcement information-gathering, relating to crimes and prosecutions, and more open-ended intelligence that relates to national security and counterterrorism. That wall is fast eroding following the passage of laws expanding surveillance authorities, the push for information-sharing networks, and the expectation that local...
 
Tags: intelligence, police systems, police, authorities, surveillance authorities, local police, law enforcement, federal law enforcement, intelligence analysts
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...wall keeps people out, so arguing against building a wall across America's southern border to keep illegal immigrants out is harder to do The other thing that matters is agenda . There are lots of people, politicians, companies and so on who deliberately try to manipulate your feeling of security for their own gain. They try to cause fear ....
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...wall keeps people out, so arguing against building a wall across America's southern border to keep illegal immigrants out is harder to do The other thing that matters is agenda . There are lots of people, politicians, companies and so on who deliberately try to manipulate your feeling of security for their own gain. They try to cause fear ....
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches