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Click Trajectories: End-to-end analysis of the spam value chain – Levchenko et al. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2011 This week we’re going to be looking at some of the less desirable corners of the internet: spam, malvertisements, click-jacking, typosquatting, and friends. To kick things off, today’s paper gives an insight into the end-to-end…
According to the high-profile consulting firm, McKinsey & Co., millennials will have to work seven years longer or save twice as much in order to live as well in retirement as their parents. But take heart millennials! The following video should make you feel better (if you have a little adventure in your soul as…
JPMorgan Chase paid its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, $27 million in 2015. In another Wall Street universe, the hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin made $1.7 billion over the same year. Even as regulators push to rein in compensation at Wall Street banks, top hedge fund managers earn more than 50 times what the top…
BRUSSELS—A confidential document debated by eurozone finance ministers detailed for the first time what Greece’s creditors could do to ease the country’s debt load and how that burden would develop over the coming decades without new relief measures. The document, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, served as the basis of Monday’s emergency…
Germany eased its objections to debt relief talks for Greece on Monday as eurozone finance ministers sought to narrow their significant differences with the International Monetary Fund over Athens’ €86bn bailout. With Greece facing €3.5bn in debt payments in July that it will be unable to meet without support, eurozone ministers said they were ready for…
LendingClub. I confess that I don’t understand the LendingClub scandal. LendingClub sold $22 million worth of “near-prime loans” to one investor (Jefferies) “in contravention of the investor’s express instructions as to a non-credit and non-pricing element”; it noticed the problem “with the discovery of a change in the application dates for $3.0 million of the loans.”…
As Monday morning arrives in Austin, Texas, the thousands of people who’ve come to rely on Uber and Lyft (as both passengers and drivers) in this car-oriented city are waking up to a new reality. The two ride-hail leaders lost a major vote on Saturday, one they collectively spent more than $8 million trying to…
As I’ve spent the last several months looking for a full-time journalism job, I keep noticing something depressing. When you search job sites for “journalism,” “reporter” or other similar keywords, what you’ll find is a whole bunch of roles that have nothing to do directly with producing the news. For every one job result for…
If you’ve ever felt like financial stress was bringing you down—in a big way—you might be interested in the findings of a new study from Payoff, a financial wellness company. In an analysis of data from 2,011 survey respondents, researchers at Payoff discovered that 23% of respondents were experiencing symptoms commonly associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)…
Bloomberg reporters Tracy Alloway and Luke Kawa managed to get one of Zero Hedge’s ex-employees to tell them some inside stuff about what it’s like to write for the site. It’s a big story on the financial web today. Zero Hedge clapped back with a deeper look at the disgruntled ex-employee’s background and possible motives…