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Can a Dubai Silver ETF Send Global Spot Prices Higher?

18 Tuesday Nov 2008

Posted by jschulmansr in capitalism, commodities, Copper, Currency and Currencies, deflation, Finance, gold, hacking, inflation, Investing, investments, Latest News, Markets, precious metals, silver, Today, U.S. Dollar, Uncategorized

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Can a Dubai Silver ETF Send Global Spot Prices Higher? – Seeking Alpha

By: Peter Cooper of  Arabian Money.net

The Dubai Multi Commodities Center is understood to be putting the finishing touches to an exchange traded fund for silver with a launch likely next month as demand for silver has surged in the past six months.

Local bullion dealers are having to fly heavy silver bullion bars in from around the globe to meet demand as traditional sources closer to Dubai have been exhausted. The DMCC has successfully established itself as a regional hub for commodities trading over the past few years, and has its own swanky new business park with its gold, silver and diamond towers.

City of Gold

Around 20 per cent of the world’s physical gold trade is conducted through Dubai which used to be the epicenter of gold smuggling to India thirty years ago when import taxes were sky high. Nowadays Dubai is a convenient logistics center for commodities traders and still tax free.

The details of the silver ETF are being kept under wraps for the launch but plans seem advanced. Local jewelers have long used silver in a 25:75 amalgam with gold to create white-gold which is popular with consumers.

But clearly the ETF is an strictly an investment product, and demand for the shiniest of metals has been rising strongly, as evidenced by the high premiums now being paid on coins and bullion locally.

ETF price advantage

The latter also gives the ETF a natural advantage. Its price will be closely linked to the lower spot price for physical silver, and not be inflated by the high premiums now paid on physical silver.

Investors will no doubt appreciate this keen pricing advantage, and hope to also profit from the leverage silver offers to the gold price. In previous gold price booms silver has outperformed the yellow metal, and the gold-to-silver price ratio has fallen sharply.

Will the new Dubai silver ETF have a big enough impact on the tiny global silver market to send prices higher like the Hunt Brothers did in the late 1970s when they cornered the market? Well, nothing succeeds like success and a silver ETF in Dubai looks like being the right product in the right place at the right time.

My Note: A Word to the Wise is sufficient!

See My Ealier Post from Today: All The Gold In Saudi Arabia, if they buy as much Silver as they have Gold – Look Out…

My Disclosure: I am long all Precious Metals, Mining Companies, Etf’s, and in my opinion you should be too! – jschulmansr 

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Virus Bulletin : News – AV-Test release latest results

04 Thursday Sep 2008

Posted by jschulmansr in computer security, Computers and Computing, hacking, id theft, security

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Virus Bulletin : News – AV-Test release latest results

 

 

<!– –>Test Results: 2009 Anti-Malware Suites Better at Sniffing Out Threats

 

AV-Test’s latest lab results show improvements in malware detection, without jeopardizing performance

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 | Finally, some good news about antivirus products: The new 2009 releases of popular antivirus and Internet security suites overall are catching more malware than their previous versions and without major performance hits, according to newly released test results. Independent testing lab AV-Test looked at 33 different anti-malware products that had been updated through Aug. 18 — including 2008 and 2009 versions of F-Secure, Symantec, and Panda’s anti-malware suites as well as Windows Live OneCare 2.5.2900.03, Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, and McAfee Internet Security 2008 — measuring how well they did in detecting malware and spyware, proactively detecting new and unknown malware, responding to new widespread malware, scanning quickly, and generating false positives.

“In most cases, the test results of the different products didn’t change dramatically… [Most] got better when compared with our March 2008 testing and all 2009 editions we’ve reviewed performed better than the current releases,” says Andreas Marx, CEO of AV-Test. “I especially liked that the protection got better while the system performance wasn’t hit that much — the 2009 editions [including beta versions] were faster than the 2008 releases. So it looks like that most vendors have done their homework and instead of adding only new features, they also took care about the system performance.”

Marx noted that many of the ’09 products can or will eventually use “cloud” type services for more comprehensive scans. “If an unknown file has been found on a system and this file appears to be suspicious, the scanner (and guard) will check if it’s a known good or bad application by contacting a server from the AV company,” he says. “This might further increase the detection rates. However, you’d need to be online and accept such connections in order to get this additional protection.”

In the AV-Test research, Symantec’s Norton 2009 beta came out with some of the best ratings in the lab tests, catching over 98 percent of malware, over 95 percent of spyware, and no false positives. The software also found new malware over 95 percent of the time. Marx notes that Symantec is now pushing virus definition updates, known as “pulse updates,” every five to 10 minutes in some cases.

Among the products with the lowest scores were CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008, ClamWin 0.93.1, Dr.Web for Windows 4.44, Rising Internet Security 2008, and VirusBuster Professional 10.86.1. AV-Test did not test rootkit detection — which has been a weak spot for most anti-malware tools — in this round of testing to give vendors time to improve this detection, which was poor in AV-Test’s April results. (See New Tests Show Rootkits Still Evade AV.)

AV-Test says it used the best available editions of the products, and ran the tests on Windows XP platforms, using over 1.1 million malware samples. “The 2009 [products] seem to be a lot better optimized for the real needs of the customers, and they will not slow down the systems in such a dramatic way like the 2008 editions did,” Marx says.

—      Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor, Dark Reading

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=162788

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AV-Test release latest results

Major test of suite products completed

Independent testing body AV-Test.org has released the results of a major comparative of suite products, with many vendors’ 2009 editions included in the results. The test covers a range of metrics, including detection rates over various types of malware including adware and spyware, false positive rates, scanning speed, proactive detection, and response times to outbreaks.

In terms of pure detection rates in on-demand scanning, a beta version of GDATA‘s AVK 2009 topped the charts for both ‘malware’ (measured against 1,164,662 samples) and ‘ad- and spyware’ (94,291 samples), with Avira‘s Premium Security Suite 2008 a close runner-up in the former category and F-Secure 2009 placing second in the latter. Secure Computing‘s Webwasher gateway product, based on the Avira engine with some in-house heuristics, came third in both categories.

Other areas analysed were scored on a five-point scale from very good to very poor. ‘Proactive’ protection included scanning of files discovered after the freezing of products, and executing unrecognised malware to test behavioural protection. Products rating ‘good’ or better in every category include Avira‘s premium suite (the popular free version has less complete spyware detection), AVK 2009, F-Secure‘s 2009 suite, Symantec‘s Norton I.S. 2009 (still in beta) and Sophos‘s Security Suite 2.5. All products taking part in the test managed to achieve a ‘good’ or better in at least one category.

The test also included keeping a record of the number of updates released over a four-week period. Of course, these numbers on their own cannot be used to measure the quality of the products involved, but were recorded out of interest. The most interesting data to emerge from this measurement was that the 2009 version of Norton topped the table with an impressive 6,202 incremental micro-updates, issued several times per hour, while Kaspersky came a distant second with a mere 696. Half of the 34 products tested had fewer than 100, including those from McAfee (21) and Trend Micro (30).

A summary of the major areas tested is printed below; hover over the product names to see full version information.

Product

malware on demand

adware / spyware on demand

false positives

scan speed

proactive detection

response times

malware on demand

adware / spyware on demand

AntiVir (Avira)

++

++ (4)

+

++

+

++

99.8%

99.0%

Avast! (Alwil)

++

++

+

+

o

o

99.3%

98.3%

AVG

+

– (4)

+

+

o

o

95.8%

87.0%

AVK 2008 (G Data) (1)

++

++

o

–

+

++

99.2%

99.1%

AVK 2009 (G Data) (2)

++

++

+

+

++

++

99.8%

99.8%

BitDefender 2008

+

–

+

–

++

+

97.7%

87.8%

BitDefender 2009

+

–

+

o

++

+

97.6%

88.0%

CA-AV (VET)

—

—

++

o

–

—

65.5%

68.0%

ClamAV

–

o

–

—

–

++

88.5%

92.8%

Dr Web

—

–

o

o

+

o

84.9%

89.6%

eScan

+

+

o

–

+

++

97.8%

97.4%

Fortinet-GW

o

—

o

+

++

+

92.6%

81.9%

F-Prot (Frisk)

o

o

+

+

o

o

94.8%

92.6%

F-Secure 2008

++

++

+

o

++

+

98.2%

98.4%

F-Secure 2009

++

++

+

+

++

++

99.2%

99.6%

Ikarus

++

++

o

+

+

+

99.5%

98.6%

K7 Computing

o

o

o

++

–

o

92.1%

94.0%

Kaspersky

++

++

o

o

+

++

98.4%

98.3%

McAfee

o

o

++

o

+

–

93.6%

94.5%

Microsoft

+

+

++

o

–

–

97.7%

97.1%

Nod32 (Eset)

o

o

++

++

++

+

94.4%

94.7%

Norman

+

+

+

o

+

o

96.3%

95.8%

Norton 2008 (Symantec)

+

o

++

+

+

o

97.8%

94.6%

Norton 2009 (Symantec)

++

+

++

++

+

++

98.7%

95.4%

Panda 2008

–

o

+

+

++

o

86.4%

93.4%

Panda 2009

o

+

+

+

++

+

91.8%

95.6%

Rising

—

—

+

o

o

o

83.4%

77.5%

Sophos

+

+

+

+

++

+

97.5%

95.0%

Trend Micro

o

–

+

+

o

+

91.3%

88.5%

TrustPort

++

++

–

—

++

++

99.5%

98.4%

VBA32

o

–

o

o

+

o

90.5%

85.2%

VirusBuster

–

–

+

+

o

o

89.0%

85.8%

WebWasher-GW (3)

++

++

o

++

++

++

99.7%

99.2%

ZoneAlarm

+

+

o

o

+

++

97.8%

97.7%

Index

malware on demand

adware / spyware on demand

false positives

scan speed

proactive detection

response times

malware on demand

adware / spyware on demand

++

>98%

>98%

no FP

 

 

< 2 h

 

 

+

>95%

>95%

1-2 FP

 

 

2 – 4 h

 

 

o

>90%

>90%

3-4 FP

 

 

4 – 6 h

 

 

–

>85%

>85%

5-6 FP

 

 

6 – 8 h

 

 

—

<85%

<85%

> 6 FP

 

 

> 8 h

 

 

Notes
(1) AVK 2008 uses the Avast and Kaspersky scan engines
(2) AVK 2009 uses the Avast and BitDefender scan engines
(3) WebWasher uses the Avira engine and a self-developed heuristic engine
(4) the free (personal) edition does not include ad- and spyware detection, so the results would be —

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Hacker’s Choice: Top Six Database Attacks – Desktop Security

04 Thursday Sep 2008

Posted by jschulmansr in computer security, Computers and Computing, hacking, Uncategorized

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It takes the average attacker less than 10 seconds to hack in and out of a database — hardly enough time for the database administrator to even notice the intruder. So it
’s no surprise that many database attacks go unnoticed by organizations until long after the data has been compromised.

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The Seven Deadliest Social Networking Hacks – Desktop Securi

04 Thursday Sep 2008

Posted by jschulmansr in computer security, Computers and Computing, hacking, Uncategorized

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It started with a stolen Facebook photo attached to an inflammatory profile. It led to online harassment, death threats, and emails to the victim
’s boss questioning the victim’s character. But an online personal attack against Graham Cluley earlier this year is one example of how easy it is to use a social network to damage the identity of…

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