Re: Re: Pricing intrusions

[justin.lister () csfb com (Lister, Justin)]

Marcus,

Exactly, so they have the same false positives, so they have to decide which
ones to investigate.  I also came across a few years ago a number
of products called 'Fraud Detection Systems'.. (I actually posted some
information to the list). The telco's also have products for detecting
Calling card fraud.

Credit Fraud: http://www.geek-girl.com/ids/1995/0288.html

Telco Fraud: http://www.geek-girl.com/ids/1995/0295.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From:         "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () nfr net>
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 Oct 1999 23:43:32 -0400 
> To:   ids () uow edu au 
> Subject:      Re: IDS: Pricing intrusions  
>
> > But the stock trading approach is risky too. The NY Stock Exchange claims
>
> > that they monitor every single brokerage account for suspicious activity.
>
> > If you make money most of the time just before earning are announced for
> a 
> > handful of companies, they'll pick it up and cart you off to prison.
>
> If you think about it for a second, you'll realize that doing such
> a thing is a problem of the same magnitude as doing statistical
> intrusion detection.
>
> mjr.
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