‘International investors have called the recovery a dead cat bounce, and the leadership’s reputation with its own people has suffered a serious blow.’ Photograph: Imaginechina/Corbis
The Chinese stock market crash came to a juddering halt yesterday, after a nailbiting three weeks that left investors $3tn poorer. The halt came after an escalating series of interventions that culminated in the suspension of […]
Technical glitches this morning are raising homeland security concerns. Though it is not yet clear if the events are related, two separate technical incidents have led to problems in the computer systems that control stock market trading on the NYSE and automation on airlines owned by United.At 11:30 AM Eastern time the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) halted trading after reports that […]
The last time Janet Yellen, Series 7, 63 certified, warned of asset bubbles, aka the Fed’s “Irrational Exuberance 2.0” moment, was back in July 2014, when the smallest of utterances led to a selling avalanche in biotech and social media stocks. This is what the Fed said back then:
“Nevertheless, valuation metrics in some sectors do appear substantially stretched—particularly those for […]
At the end of April, Kaspersky reported an ITW exploit that was abusing an Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability at the time (CVE-2014-0515). The vulnerability was known to be inside the Pixel Bender parser in Adobe Flash Player. I had time to look deeper into how the vulnerability works and how control of the code is acquired using this vulnerability.Figure […]
At the end of April, Kaspersky reported an ITW exploit that was abusing an Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability at the time (CVE-2014-0515). The vulnerability was known to be inside the Pixel Bender parser in Adobe Flash Player. I had time to look deeper into how the vulnerability works and how control of the code is acquired using this vulnerability.Figure […]
