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Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls
Published on 2010-08-26 11:40:00
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572705Abstract: We estimate classification models of deceptive discussions during quarterly earnings conference calls. Using data on subsequent financial restatements (and a set of criteria to identify especially serious accounting problems), we label the Question and Answer section of each call as "truthful" or "deceptive". Our models are developed with the word categories that have been shown by previous psychological and linguistic research
DLL Hijacking: Facts and Fiction
Published on 2010-08-26 11:13:00
Via Threatpost.com -It’s been interesting watching DLL hijacking grow from interesting phenomena to a full-on snowball of hype and FUD over the last few days. As of this writing Google turns up 152 news articles on the subject. The vast majority of coverage is calling this a “new class of attack” and pointing out how “over 30 zero-day vulnerabilities have been found so far!”. The only way to paraphrase many of the headlines is: “Panic!”Fear and panic, while good for security compan
America's Most Dangerous Military Computer Breach Was Caused By a Flash Drive
Published on 2010-08-25 12:59:00
Via Washington Post (hat tip to Gizmodo) -Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008. In an article to be published Wednesday discussing the Pentagon's cyberstrategy, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III says malicious code placed on the drive by a foreign intelligence agency uploaded itself onto a network run by the U.S. military's Central Command. "That
