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Spear Phishing: Researchers Work to Counter Email Attacks that Gain Recipients’ Trust

By Guest PostJanuary 13, 2013Technologyandrew howard, attachment, corporate networks, counter, dynamic framework, e newsletter, email attacks, email system, employee, generic emails, georgia tech, gtri, knowledge, malicious attachments, malicious software analysis, malware, marketing plan, open this attachment, organization, password, personal information, phalanx, research institute, sec, spear phishing, titan, user, verify your password, website

The email resembled the organization’s own employee e-newsletter and asked recipients to visit a website to confirm that they wanted to continue receiving the newsletter. Another email carried an attachment that said it contained the marketing plan the recipient had requested at a recent conference. A third email bearing a colleague’s name suggested a useful website to visit.

None of these emails were what they pretended to be. The first directed victims to a website that asked for personal information, including the user’s password. The second included a virus that launched when the “marketing plan” was opened. The third directed users to a website that attempted to install a malicious program. (more…)

Hedge Funds Manipulate Stock Prices, New Research Shows

By Guest PostDecember 13, 2012Economyaugustin landier, dataset, evidence, financial contracts, findings, francesco franzoni, hedge fund data, hedge funds, investors, itzhak ben david, ohio state university, portfolio pumping, practice, price, rabih moussawi, sec, stock prices, university of lugano

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Some hedge funds manipulate stock prices at the end of the month to improve the returns that they report to their investors, a new study suggests.

In a study of 10 years of hedge fund data, researchers found evidence that some funds run up prices on specific stocks they hold on the last day of the month and quarter – especially the last 20 minutes of trading – before they report their returns for the period. But the prices usually fall back the next day, after the abnormally large returns have already been reported to investors. (more…)

When to Rein in the Stock Market

By Guest PostJuly 5, 2012Economybattle, failing business, investment bank, investor, lehman brothers, michigan state university, moral hazard, naveen khanna, richmond mathews, sec, short seller, stock market

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The stock market should be regulated only during times of extraordinary financial disruptions when speculators can destroy healthy businesses, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University scholar.

The study, in the Journal of Financial Economics, is one of the first to suggest when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should get involved in the market.

The answer: rarely. The SEC should step in only when outside financial disruptions make it impossible for large shareholders to fend off “short sellers” – or speculators betting a company’s stock value will decrease, said Naveen Khanna, finance professor in MSU’s Broad College of Business. (more…)

Yahoo! Board of Directors Forms Special Committee to Review CEO Academic Credentials

By Guest PostMay 8, 2012Technologyacademic credentials, alfred amoroso, bird, board of directors, boxer, ceo, drooks, john hayes, licenberg, los angeles, marella, nessim, scott thompson, sec, shareholders, terry bird, thomas mcinerney, wolpert, Yahoo

SUNNYVALE, Calif. –– The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. today announced that it has formed a special committee to conduct a thorough review of CEO Scott Thompson’s academic credentials, as well as the facts and circumstances related to the review and disclosure of those credentials in connection with Thompson’s appointment as CEO.

The special committee is chaired by Alfred Amoroso, an independent director who joined the Board in February of this year. The other members of the special committee are John Hayes and Thomas McInerney, independent directors who joined the Board in April of this year. (more…)

Alibaba Group, Yahoo!, and SoftBank Reach Agreement on Alipay

By Guest PostJuly 29, 2011Technologyalibaba group, alibaba group chairman, alipay, Carol Bartz, China, china internet business, financial performance, future ipo, jack ma, joseph tsai, masayoshi son, risk factors, sec, securities and exchange commission, softbank, taobao, Yahoo, yahoo ceo, yahoo quarterly report

*Alibaba Group will Participate in the Ongoing Value of Alipay*

HONG KONG & TOKYO & SUNNYVALE, Calif.-– Alibaba Group, Yahoo!, and SoftBank today announced they have reached an agreement in which Alibaba Group will continue to participate in Alipay’s future financial performance, including a future IPO or other liquidity event. The agreement is consistent with the two agreed-upon principles established at the outset of the negotiations: structure the inter-company relationship between Alipay and Taobao in order to preserve the value within Taobao and, by extension, within Alibaba Group; and provide that Alibaba Group is appropriately compensated for the value of Alipay. (more…)

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Spear Phishing: Researchers Work to Counter Email Attacks that Gain Recipients’ Trust

Hedge Funds Manipulate Stock Prices, New Research Shows

When to Rein in the Stock Market

Yahoo! Board of Directors Forms Special Committee to Review CEO Academic Credentials

Alibaba Group, Yahoo!, and SoftBank Reach Agreement on Alipay