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Employee Arrested for ID Theft

Hospitals’ increasing reliance on computerized record-keeping has provided new avenues for identity theft and invasions of medical privacy...[...] read more »
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Financing The MBS Fix: The 800 Pound Gorilla

Everybody, there is an 800 lbs gorilla sitting in the living room of this banking bailout, and the general public doesn't see it...[...] read more »
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The Illicit Relationship Between Goldman Sachs and Paulson

When I heard "changes in our geographic earnings mix," I immediately thought of a document that a friend had sent me a while back, with a rather lo[...] read more »
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♦ U.S. Banking System Vulnerable to Sabotage

“There isn’t a response or a game plan,” said senior vice president Mark Gerencser of the Booz Allen Hamilton consulting service, which ran the simul[...] read more »
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Goldman Sachs Evades Taxes, Takes Tarp Funds

When I heard “changes in our geographic earnings mix,” I immediately thought of a document that a friend had sent me a while back, with a rather lon[...] read more »
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► ISR News: Our Biggest Threat in 2009?

“The selection of cyber crime as the mega trend most likely to be a high or very high risk in the next 12 to 24 months can be partly based on the fac[...] read more »
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► ISR News: Joe Knows Too Much

“At some point later that evening, he logged in and set all the modems in the POP to autodial 911 repeatedly. None of our customers could use the bro[...] read more »
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► ISR News: Data Exposure: Who Pays?

“Employees at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro were notified Monday of a security breach of a computer that contained personal info...[...] read more »
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♦ Finance: Cyber Security Tops 2009 Agenda

There are tools on the books now, including Sarbanes-Oxley, that we can use to hold financial companies responsible for how they handle that data. Th[...] read more »
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60 Minutes Blows the POA/ALT-A Loan Story Badly - I Would Know, I Sold Them

The bank's own greed got the best of them; all they saw was the dollar signs in their eyes, as fees and points that filled their coffers.[...] read more »
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Data Theft: Another Hit to Shareholder Value

Lapses in Information and Data Security caused by budget cuts and layoffs- these are as real a threat to National Security as the attacks of 9/11...[...] read more »
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Worried About Losing Dollars? You Better Watch Your Data Too…

What of the dozens of boxes of personal financial information, credit reports, social security numbers and other sensitive information that was found[...] read more »
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New York Federal Reserve Opens 'Pawn Shop' to Buy Up ABS Junk

"On Wednesday, December 3, 2008 The New York Federal Reserve website reported that they will begin to purchase Asset Backed Securities (ABS) from fa[...] read more »
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We lose over a half a trillion dollars to the market year after year after year

The Wall Street Bailout is quickly reaching into the trillions-of-dollars, and many analysts are speculating as to the current running total of the o[...] read more »
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The Financial Industry Takes Too Much, Gives Too Little, and Bakes Unknown Liability into the System

"The financial sector itself has been building for many decades into the largest single element of the American economy. We have moved to a world wh[...] read more »
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