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Corporate Greed and the Destabilization of Society

2008-09-23 18:24:22 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...greed in financial services. It is interesting because if you look at the various software players that are focused on selling to financial services, you will easily see that they have bought into the same feed the beast culture that has contributed to the destabilization of the economy and, in turn, society For example, the Average Joe...
 
Tags: society, greed, safe money, money, money market funds, democratic society, average joe investor, free society, joe
 
 
 
 
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The Audacity of Capital Markets

2008-09-19 11:18:37 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...greed and corporate arrogance by financial services companies have destroyed the real estate market and crippled the global economy. Countless millions of folks have lost their homes and life savings. This corporate arrogance and greed was like a greed virus, spreading across the world like a plague A similar arrogance is happening in...
 
Tags: capital market folks, market folks, financial services, financial services folks, folks, complex, capital markets, hard complex, complex money
 
 
 
 
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The Neuroscience of Cons

2008-11-18 06:32:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...greed to work. But this short essay implies that greed is only a secondary factor
 
Tags: attachment system, attachment, short essay implies, cons rely, human oxytocin, greed, secondary factor, human brain, potent stimulus
 
 
 
 
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Crimeware in the Middle - Zeus

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2008-04-24 04:37:46 by HASH0x8ae4648 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...greed, or response rate optimization? The idea of converging phishing emails with embedded exploits and banking malware is nothing new, in fact phishers realizing that combining attack approaches can increase the chance of achieving their objective which in this case is either logging the authentication process or hijacking it, often forget...
 
Tags: zeus, file, remote file, zeus trojan, binary file, file system32 drivers, kit, metaphisher kit, configuration file
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...greed Evan] There is no doubt that UCSF Medical Center is an outstanding health provider in terms of providing innovative medical care and saving lives. One of the best from what I read UCSF is committed to maintaining the privacy of patient information and takes any compromise of patient information very seriously. When patients are seen at...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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Skype Phishing Pages Serving Exploits and Malware

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2008-05-09 07:00:15 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...greed or contact point optimization for fraudulent purposes, passive phishing attacks can sometimes be quite active and leave the curious clicker with a false feeling of security
 
Tags: skype account informations, account informations, account, skype, account information, malware, informations, original login page, result
 
 
 
 
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Airlines Profiting from TSA Rules

2008-05-20 06:51:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...greed The Transportation Security Administration wants to be sure the same person who bought the ticket, and who was screened, is boarding the plane. But when there's an inexact match, the airline can either charge a $100 "change" fee or force you to buy a new ticket. In an industry where every dollar counts, the exact-name rule is the...
 
Tags: ticket, award ticket, security, transportation security administration, ticket slide, security personnel, tsa rule, airlines, frequent flier account
 
 
 
 
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Even the Rich and Famous pay the price for being Dishonest and Unethical

2008-06-29 16:05:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...greedy. In 1990, Scruggs became famous for suing tobacco companies and winning lawsuits that resulted in a $206 BILLION dollar settlement. If his take of that was just 10%, he walked away with a cool $20.6 Billion dollars. A film was even made about the case - "The Insider" starred Al Pacino and Russell Crowe A decade later he is trying to...
 
Tags: wrong judge, judge, bribe judge, richerd scruggs, scruggs, sentence, famous, heavier sentence, life sentence
 
 
 
 
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Reference Clients, the Global Meltdown and CEP

2008-07-18 12:34:12 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...greed - corporations taking high risks to stay competitive in a bull market and then they experience a frighteningly negative reversal during a market free fall Of course, the US Federal Reserve did not help matters when they decided to poke a gaping hole in the real estate bubble by dramatically raising interest rates without thinking about...
 
Tags: cep, market, market free, cepep, includes cepep software, global market, software, cepep reference clients, cep revenue
 
 
 
 
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Assets Good Until Reached For

2008-09-15 09:41:43 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop