Sinowal trojan: Three years old and just plain nasty

Sinowal is a dangerous piece of malware. Security analysts are just beginning to realize how much so. That’s because the Sinowal trojan is unique in its attack vector, and we need to understand what’s different about it. ——————————————————————————————————————- I want to share my close encounter of the third kind with a trojan called Sinowal, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:05:25

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Your opinions requested! Plus Year 2, Week 30 Results: 1.9 oz of plastic waste.

Here's the weekly tally. But please read down to the bottom of the page. I have an Announcement, a Survey, and a Discount Coupon for you ... Direct, Safeco Insurance, credit card company, and Financial West Group. I think I've been doing ... of us outside Canada cannot even view it via the web site. Any Canadian Fake Plastic Fish readers care to watch [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:44:00

Credit Crisis Sequel, Global Bank Bailout, Emerging Markets Still a Buy?, Gas Wars and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Ghosts of the fourth quarter haunt global financials… so begins the second act of the credit saga Even the ... -Ukraine gas dispute not yet over… a reader provides firsthand account And… action ... $30 billion to stay afloat, analysts at Morgan Stanley predicted today. According to Morgan’s report [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:36:46

National Post editorial board: Securities reform deserves time for debate

It’s odd to hear federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty arguing that the monumental task of centralizing securities regulation should be bolted onto ... too much on his plate with the global credit crisis and could probably afford to take a few more weeks to make sure that federal stimulus measures are intelligently designed. We are broadly in favour [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:17:38

Bloggers and the Federal Shield Law

This news pisses off lots of bloggers and citizen media advocates: For citizen journalists, the federal shield law front was looking good for a while.  Although the House of Representatives version of the bill, passed in April, only offered a shield to professional bloggers, the Senate version didn't differentiate between the pros and the amateurs.  So there was hope that amateur journalists might actually, eventually, get its protection. No longer though. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 20:46:04

Chasing A Moving Target

A: A post for the sellers out there after getting some calls recently about this topic. If I had one piece of advice to Manhattan sellers, especially those who own properties that have few special resale features to offer (amazing park or river views, large outdoor space, fireplace, roof rights, amazing location, etc..) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 14:25:31

Big Gas: U.S. Natural-Gas Imports to Rise, Prices to Fall?

The Journal’s Russell Gold reports: Energy demand is down. The global economy is sputtering. Meanwhile, U.S. natural gas production is up ... . Wood Mackenzie, the Scotland-based energy consultant, predicts in a new report that LNG imports ... reeling from overextending themselves while credit was easy. If gas is cheap and plentiful, it could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 10:31:00

Reinventing America

America faces serious challenges to maintain its storied status quo. Hurdles include a sinking economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the rising cost of education, global warming, a crumbling infrastructure and American workers with uncertain futures. Trendwatchers are more acutely aware of these issues than most, but they’re also more hopeful [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:40:59

Collins, Blow and Herbert

Ms. Collins, in “The Leaves Have It,” says the Bush White House so totally regarded senators as potted plants that it was a wonder that senior aides ... ’s Biggest Challenge,” and says that with credit tight, savings depleted, the stock market ... said issue is as large as the Gaza crisis (only one president at a time) or as small as Roland Burris [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 12:06:39

Growing Our Own

As usual, a couple of timely coincidences has prompted another post. This time, we're back to food. I was grazing through the Orion update I get periodically, where a short piece by Jason Peters about ecological illiteracy points out that ignorance about our almost complete dependence on oil is going to affect us profoundly, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:40:17

Don't follow Japanese example - stocks are NOT cheap

Thousands of Japanese households are pouring their savings into stocks and other risky investments. It is the last stance of greed. Easy money ... on the street before Obama takes office. The economy is going to contract by at least 27% (check my article ... % and corporate bonds may turn out as junk. We are looking at a fundamental shift not only [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 15:12:21

If It Stops Moving, Subsidize It

Naturally, now that government plans to intervene in the economy with a massive stimulus package, everyone wants their “fair” share. Robert D ... that wouldn’t be there otherwise.  A new report by the Information Technology and Innovation ... grid. And a Silicon Valley petition calls for a tax credit for companies that spend more than 80 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 03:15:11

Another Quasi-Nationalization, House Debuts Obama Stimulus, Russian Resource War Approaches, Prices Fall and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Congress unleashes remainder of TARP… another $350 billion into the void Treasury wastes no time… Bank of ... and hawing on how “It’ll be different this time,” the rest of the bailout went straight to the Treasury ... and Merrill in less than 12 months. Today we learned Lewis has been pleading with Uncle Sam [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:25:19

Credit Crisis Sequel, Global Bank Bailout, Emerging Markets Still a Buy?, Gas Wars and More!

Ghosts of the fourth quarter haunt global financials… so begins the second act of the credit saga… Even the IMF needs a loan… $150 billion to back ... and notprofitable) segments of the business. Robert Rubin, who among other things helped create this “ ... predicted today. According to Morgan’s report, profits at HSBC will decline “sharply” this year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:28:24

Is Bush Tanking Stocks to Grab the Remaining $350 Billion TARP? Remember the much decried end-of-Clinton- era pardons, the most controversial of which involved tax cheat and storied trader Marc Rich? Well, if I am reading the tea leaves right, those shenanigans pales compared to the nonsense Bush is trying to pull in his last week in office [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 21:43:00

Soimething to offend Everyone

Political satire or reality?We will do something a little different in today’s post. Rather that blather about our own political views, let me share with you the contents of an email I received from dear friend and colleague Dr. Jerry. We’ve omitted the illustrations from the original since my technical knowledge is not sophisticated enough to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:17:00

One Nation Divisible Under Obama? Not Indivisible Under God.

“I would have hoped that if the Union were ever again to be imperiled it might at least be in a cause as noble as the Abolition of Slavery. To imperil it for the vanity of a single individual is unimaginably petty!” By Judah Benjamin, Guest Author Before I do anything else, I want to re-state my position on the subject of Barack Hussein Obama II, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 22:43:41

Blocking, Tackling & Running: Leveraging a Crisis Into Real Change

There's a fairly well known cartoon of two scientists working out a problem on a chalkboard covered with complex equations and down in the circle is a little circle with the key step inserted in small print - "and then a miracle occurs". Wouldn't it be nice if we could take the same short-cut to fixing the horrendous shopping list of significant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:11

Ripples from Chase. Banks in the news, and not in a good way

Here is a job listing just in time for all those great folks at Chase Chase’s exit from wholesale left brokers searching the rate sheets in their ... up-front fees for application, credit report and appraisal with the thinking being “once a customer writes a check, even for a nominal amount, they are motivated to stay put”. And successful [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:34:13

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/1/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database (SADB) .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps, Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 23:00:00

Will there be a European Bailout plan?

Germany and Ireland are for the moment the two first European countries that adopted emergency measures in order to ease the effect of the widening international credit crisis in the Euro Zone. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is moving ... , and she has assured her determination to guarantee bank deposits. Check global stock markets [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 11:12:20

Nabokov Steals Another, Sharks Take Division by Throat

There was a wall around Evgeni Nabokov Thursday night, and he earned his first shut-out of the year. And I mean earned it ... to defer credit. "The shutout was just icing on the cake. Everyone chipped in." His counterpart did ... when they do not dominate. Things were chippy early in this contest, with Brett Festerling checking [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 22:26:43

GWAS Latte Post

Your regular dose of Monday morning snippets to read, click and skip over with brekkie and a cuppa...Crunch month... and we're not talking Kellogg's ... shaping up as a crunch month for many families as Christmas credit card bills fall due, report Jessica Irvine and John Huxley in The Sunday Telegraph. Credit card company slashes limits! In a case [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 20:00:00

Weekend Conspiracy Theory - Can You Stomach It?

A: Are we all just pawns in a bigger chess game? I'm not one to buy into conspiracies, but this read is just too crazy, given what we know of today's credit/financial crisis and how it has evolved from dynamics/products such as counterparty risk, credit default swaps, complex derivatives - mortgage backed securities [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 22:54:48

MBIA’s CDO Misadventures Continue (Commercial Real Estate Edition)

Monoline insurers were last year’s story, but I have a prurient interest in some of the smoldering hulks of the credit crisis. Readers may recall that in January-Feb of last year, seemingly imminent demise of monolines looked to be ready to set off financial armageddon, since monoline (and AIG) credit enhancement was critical to a lot of structured credit instruments. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 03:03:47

MBIA’s CDO Misadventures Continue (Commercial Real Estate Edition)

Monoline insurers were last year’s story, but I have a prurient interest in some of the smoldering hulks of the credit crisis. Readers may recall that in January-Feb of last year, seemingly imminent demise of monolines looked to be ready to set off financial armageddon, since monoline (and AIG) credit enhancement was critical to a lot of structured credit instruments. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 04:03:47

The Organised Homosexual Movement: Its Methods And Its Goals

By Alexander Baron Date Published: Nov-2002Table of Contents: Introduction “Gay” Propaganda The One In Ten Myth Catch Them Young The Consequences of Unnatural Sex Other Homosexual Propaganda Techniques Bad Blood [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:06:00

Phelps, Lucas, Seten, Stiglitz, and Samuelson

I missed this when it came out last Wednesday, so thanks for the email: Edmund S. Phelps: What Has Gone Wrong up until Now more ... Robert E ... here about the need to regulate the shadow banking sector (though I only gave past regulation credit ... and it is important to maintain focus. In my view, these are the most important considerations for [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 21:08:00

DrumBeat: December 4, 2008

The Peak Oil Crisis: July 2008 – A Month To Remember Most students of the subject at first thought that world oil production was going to peak for geological reasons --- the inability to find and produce enough oil to keep our annual consumption ... Lynch & Co. said in a report today. U.S. fuel demand during the four weeks ended Nov. 28 was down [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 14:07:31

The Financial Crisis: Views From the Private-Equity Front

Our friends at sister Dow Jones publication Private Equity Analyst asked a number of people in the private-equity industry what they make of the ... report to government-appointed Soviets to make operating decisions, then buyout opportunities ... the reaction to recent events will be a careful extension of credit, but on a risk-adjusted basis [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 09:30:00

SC Diocese Appears to Repudiates Catechism; SC Priest Is ‘Reined In,’ But Right (Update: Full Text of Letter)

BizzyBlog), I noted news that Fr. Newman, a Catholic priest and pastor at St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, South Carolina, had informed parishoners who voted for Barack Obama in full knowledge of the Illinois Senator’s aggressively proabortion positions that they “should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 14:15:55

Howdy, Weekly Rampart organising meetings are held at Rampart every Monday from 7pm, feel free to come by to see how you can get involved ... /TERRASSA last week, and could give a report back on the evening if people are interested.** Groups ... to placate the revolt.For some people this is the first credit-crunch riot, a sign of things to come [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:46:48

Announcing Our Blogroll

Here it is! The blogroll has finally arrived. I’ve tried to provide a diverse group of links here ... wanted to know about getting a job in accounting or finance. From cleaning up your credit report prior ... . This is more of a full service website dedicated to all things related to international accounting standards [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:24:14

Cheney Defends Torture, Claims Country is Guided by "The Hand of Providence"

Last week, a group of conservative journalists sat down with Vice-President Cheney for a two hour discussion on the last eight years in the White ... not get credit for a lot of things that didn't happen; or to translate, Cheney is again making the claim ... in the future.We know, from the Senate Armed Services Committee report released a few weeks ago [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:43:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/12/2008

Some headlines to look at:“Muslim Killed Catholic Girl in Love With Flatmate”“London Fundraisers Linked to Stoning of 13-Year-Old”“Possibly Tens of Thousands of Somalis in the US Illegally”“New Anti-Christian Attack in Mosul, Two Sisters Killed”But then there’s this:“Denmark: Ready to Ban Headscarves for Judges”So it’s not all bad news [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 04:52:00

PRIVACY IS DEAD

PRIVACY IS DEADI just hung up the phone with my realtor; he found me a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico at a bargain price. I'm so fed up with things around here, I told him I'd make an offer.All that I'm looking for is little privacy. I am in no way a hermit, or anti social person, I just don't want everything I say and do, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 13:56:00

Candidate plans won't kick foreign oil

By Jim Tankersley and Christi Parsons Fifth in an occasional series, United States of Anxiety ORLANDO -- Barack Obama and John McCain are promising voters a Tomorrowland of electric cars and high-speed trains and solar panels, a vision of American life without a drop of imported oil. But their plans to get there look more like Fantasyland [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 01:44:31

A World to Win

Notes for an introduction to perspectives by Rob Petersen This article was presented to a forum in August last year iand was forwarded to History matters by one of our readers. It present a very interesting perspective on the world and South African situation and we hope that you will enjoy read on. 1 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 05:56:02

What Didn't Cause the Crisis?

Tyler Cowen, contradicting Anna Schwartz, says it was private sector imperfections, not government policy that caused the imperfection ... Funds rate to blame?, by Tyler Cowen: ...I don't side with Austrian Business Cycle Theory in citing ... of that wealth through credit and the desire for additional risk. Note that if an increase in real [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 22:06:00

McCain Putting Country Before Power

This shows us all why the man deserves to be President: MCCAIN SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN TO FOCUS ON ECONOMY; WANTS DEBATE DELAY MCCAIN: America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 20:18:38

iPage Hosting is officially here!

Not long ago I was talking about the ‘come back’ of iPag e and yes, they are now officially here. iPage launched October 1st, 2009 and here’s a quick print screen of their website. What’s about iPage? iPage web services Confession: I thought the new iPage is all about hosting when I first saw their ‘coming soon’ page. Apparently, I was wrong. iPage is a lot more than just a hosting service provider. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 05:54:17

The Community Report

We hope you are enjoying the new year! As we mentioned in our last update, The M & M Team has made some changes ... some changes) we have elected to upgrade our Community Report. This system will periodically send ... s market may be challenging, particularly for those with credit problems or little saved to put toward [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:42:10

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2009

Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel without addressing what Hamas is doing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:54:00

Dark Horse Preview Review for March

A little editorial prerogative to get out of the way first and that is a big THANK YOU to Gwen and Lee in covering the extra days this week. I was on both a business and mini vacation and with being as busy as I have been I could ... its 2007 Graphic Novel of the Year, and legions of devoted fans consistently report that it makes them [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 05:01:00

I'm Not A Plumber, Nor A Journalist

I am not a plumber, I am in construction and I have business friends who are plumbers and I did plumb my own house. ( ... of the issues facing us today. I am religious in giving credit (or blame) in my writings to the originators ... suffer from point of view, it is inevitable, but I also know that most journalists attempt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:57:00

Stampede, *Exclusive* by Judah Benjamin

NOTE: This is a companion post to the most recent one by TD, Hawaii Does NOT Verify “Smears” COLB (Now GOTV). They should be read together. By Judah Benjamin I agree wholeheartedly with everything TD said in her last post. I particularly agree that it is time to get out there and work to ensure a McCain-Palin victory [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 19:21:51

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/16/2008

A woman will lead Muslim prayers in Oxford. The EU bans incandescent bulbs. The FBI launches an investigation of ACORN.But the story about the subduing of the drunken hijacker on an airliner bound from Turkey to St. Petersburg is my favorite, because of this quote:“Surprisingly this hooligan was not British,” said an official at Pulkovo [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 03:55:00

De-leveraging the Children of Wall Street

submitted by James Baker Welch, VP of Rothschild Investments One of the most stunning facts of the 2008 Financial Melt-down has been the wholesale ... regulatory agencies to determine if the institution has met the credit needs of its entire community. 1   The CRA began to compel banks to underwrite less credit-worthy mortgage loans in order [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:40:18

Highlights and Lowlights of BofA’s Earnings Call

Bank of America moved its earnings announcement up to this morning to soothe investors after The Wall Street Journal’s report that BofA would need ... and $27 billion in credit costs. Many of the problems originated at Merrill Lynch, which had a loss ... Goldman Sachs research analysts noted wryly in a research report this morning. BofA CEO Ken Lewis [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:01:30

The voice of the “free TEFL course” speaks

After my disbelieving post about the truth of claims of free TEFL training (followed by disbelieving comments by my regular readers, both of them), I got a reply from someone in the parent company and sent off some questions that I thought were worth asking. He didn’t have time to answer my follow up questions, but I have left them in ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 11:17:00

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