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Gangnam-gu, Seoul -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/15/2011 -- Apple released Mac OS X Lion last week, and in its full review, PCMag said it was "hands-down the best consumer OS on the market today." But would you pay $4,000 for it?

According to MacRumors, John Christman bought Lion on July 23 for $31.79, the price after tax. But then, for unexplained reasons, his PayPal account was charged another 121 times, adding up to a grand total of $3,878.40.

Christman certainly didn't mean to buy Lion for himself and 121 of his friends. He said Apple and PayPal blamed each other, and neither company would claim fault for the mistake.

"Apple blames PayPal, PayPal blames Apple," he told MacRumors. "They both are claiming to investigate but I am stuck broke for three days now. Apple claims there was only one transaction. When I told PayPal to dispute them, they closed the cases and marked the items as refunded on the 23rd. Bear in mind this money was taken and never returned yet."

So what caused the overcharge? Christman thinks it could be tied to an iCloud feature that lets iTunes automatically download past purchases. He told MacRumors he "fresh installed Lion" because his system needed to be upgraded before installation.

"I logged into our developer account and got the latest iTunes Beta, and installed it," he continued. "iTunes has a cool new feature to download all your purchased apps for you. I clicked download all. As each download started, it charged me $31.79. Some apps came fast, some took longer, but the timing was directly related to when a new app started to download."

In all, he downloaded 116 apps, though some downloads had to be restarted before they were complete. Meanwhile, the accidental charges have left Christman in the red, despite his PayPal account marking the purchases as "refunded."

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Fisher Capital Management Scam Safety and ReviewsFisher Capital Management Warning News: Thailand Economy Slumped in Wake of Flood Thailand’s economic state has fell to levels exceeding that of experts’ estimates after the nation has suffered from the worst flooding it has seen in 70 years. This has affected even big companies like Honda Motor and Western Digital, pressuring the government to help in recovery and growth. According to the National Economic and Social Development Board, Thailand’s gross domestic product has decreased by 9% after… View more Fisher Capital Management Warning News: 15 GOT ARRESTED IN PHISHING SCAM CASE In the subsequent phase of “Operación Detroit” in Almería and Murcia the Guardia Civil have arrested 15 people and issued arrest warrants to the other 14, as alleged members of an international network of fraudsters who used the system known as “Phishing” to rob innocent victims. It was estimated that the value of the transactions is more than 155,000 euro defrauded by this network of scammers during 2010 and 2011 as a result of the two phases of this operation.. .. View more Fisher Capital Management: U.S. Senators Propose Bill to Ease Route to IPOs Two U.S. senators moved legal procedure on Thursday that could lessen the expenses regarding going public meant for small and medium-sized corporations through exempting these with specific regulatory prerequisites. Democrat Charles Schumer and Republican Pat Toomey mentioned these exemptions might conclude either after five years, once the firm attained yearly earnings of the $1 billion, or obtained million in publicly.. .. View more

Fisher Capital Management Warning News: Thailand Economy Slumped in Wake of Flood

Thailand’s economic state has fell to levels exceeding that of experts’ estimates after the nation has suffered from the worst flooding it has seen in 70 years. This has affected even big companies like Honda Motor and Western Digital, pressuring the government to help in recovery and growth.

 According to the National Economic and Social Development Board, Thailand’s gross domestic product has decreased by 9% after… View more

Fisher Capital Management Warning News: 15 GOT ARRESTED IN PHISHING SCAM CASE

In the subsequent phase of “Operación Detroit” in Almería and Murcia the Guardia Civil have arrested 15 people and issued arrest warrants to the other 14, as alleged members of an international network of fraudsters who used the system known as “Phishing” to rob innocent victims. It was estimated that the value of the transactions is more than 155,000 euro defrauded by this network of scammers during 2010 and 2011 as a result of the two phases of this operation.. .. View more

Fisher Capital Management: U.S. Senators Propose Bill to Ease Route to IPOs

Two U.S. senators moved legal procedure on Thursday that could lessen the expenses regarding going public meant for small and medium-sized corporations through exempting these with specific regulatory prerequisites.

Democrat Charles Schumer and Republican Pat Toomey mentioned these exemptions might conclude either after five years, once the firm attained yearly earnings of the $1 billion, or obtained million in publicly.. .. View more

Fisher Capital Management Scam Reviews | DHS: Imported Gadgets Possibly Include Malicious Software

A Homeland Security official confirmed last week that tech components imported from overseas, many of which end up in some of the most popular American gadgets, are often infected with malicious software.

“This is one of the most complicated and difficult challenges that we have,” Greg Schaffer, acting deputy undersecretary at DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate, said during a Thursday hearing.

Schaffer was responding to questions from Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations.

“Clearly, supply chain risk management is an issue that the administration is focused on,” Schaffer said when asked how the U.S. was battling this problem. When pressed for details, Schaffer was reluctant to expand except to say, “I am aware that there have been instances where that has happened.”

“The range of issues goes to the fact that there are foreign components in many U.S. manufactured devices,” Schaffer continued. “There is a task force that DHS and DOD co-chair to look at these issues with goals to identify short-term mitigation strategies and to also make sure that we have capability for maintaining U.S. manufacturing capability over the long term.”

Chaffetz expressed concern that the private sector was not in the loop with what the government was doing on this issue, but Schaffer insisted that DHS does indeed consult its private-sector partners.

This is not the first time this issue has been raised. In a 2009 Cyberspace Policy Review, the White House said “a broad, holistic approach to risk management is required rather than a wholesale condemnation of foreign products and services. The challenge with supply chain attacks is that a sophisticated adversary might narrowly focus on particular systems and make manipulation virtually impossible to discover.”

Of course, while “foreign manufacturing does present easier opportunities for nation-state adversaries to subvert products; however, the same goals could be achieved through the recruitment of key insiders or other espionage activities,” the White House said.

“The best defense may be to ensure U.S. market leadership through continued innovation that enhances U.S. market leadership and the application of best practices in maintaining diverse, resilient supply chains and infrastructures,” the administration concluded.

Fisher Capital Management Corporate News: Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest

For Storms, that sounded like Microsoft was looking for a technology or technique to mitigate so-called “return-oriented programming,” or ROP vulnerabilities.

ROP is a focus of researchers right now, said Storms, because it can be used by attackers to sidestep current Windows security technologies like ASLR, or address space layout randomization. ASLR is an anti-exploit technology used in Windows to make it more difficult for hackers to predict available blocks of memory that are available to execute their malicious code.

Storms described ROP as piecing together function calls in ways that are not intended, and can be used for some advantage to the attacker in order to load code into memory.

“There’s always going to be some bit of memory that could be useful for ROP,” said Storms. “If Microsoft is able to do away with the ROP method of execution, that’s a big win.”

BlueHat Prize winners will retain the intellectual rights to their invention, but must license it to Microsoft on a royalty-free basis, said Moussouris. Eligible entries must provide a prototype that runs on Windows and be developed using the Windows SDK (software developer kit), according to the contest rules.

A panel of Microsoft employees from the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), the Windows group and Microsoft’s research arm will judge the entries.

“Microsoft knows there will always be bugs in its code, but a defensive technology to add to ASLR and DEP [data execution prevention, another anti-exploit safeguard in Windows] will prevent those bugs from being actionable,” said Storms.

But the contest’s payback could be years down the road.

“I think [the technology] could show up in Windows 9, or maybe in a version of IE, like IE 11 or IE 12,” said Storms. “Windows 8 is already over the hump in their production cycle.”

It’s possible Microsoft would be able to integrate the winning technology in a service pack for Windows 8, which is expected to debut next year, perhaps as early as April or as late as next fall, Storms added.

“It’s one thing for someone to come up with the idea and prototype, it’s another for Microsoft to actually implement it in Windows,” Storms said.

Microsoft hasn’t committed to rerunning the contest next year, but said today that it would evaluate this first run, then determine how or if the competition changes in the future.

Fisher Capital Management Investment: Stark warning as turmoil adds to recruitment fears

RECRUITMENT giant Michael Page international has cast another shadow over the banking sector with a warning that the recent financial turmoil is adding to a recruitment slowdown.

Shares in the group have already dropped by nearly 25% in the past month as investors reacted to a report from fellow recruiter Hays of a weak UK market being held back by the financial services sector.

The shares opened 12% down yesterday as Michael Page said: “In the first six months our banking business grew strongly.

However, following the recently announced hiring freezes in the past few weeks, gross profit growth in this sector, which accounts for approximately 10% of group gross profit, has slowed.”

Major European banks including Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC and UBS have announced job cuts and hiring freezes over the past two months, as the industry grapples with tougher regulation and the impact of the eurozone debt crisis on investment banking operations.

On top of that, recent sharp falls in world stock markets on global growth fears, have prompted banks to hold off any hiring decisions.

Steve Ingham, chief executive, said: “Since this turmoil has arisen in the last few weeks these announcements have meant a lot of our banking clients have just held their breath and slowed down on recruitment, and therefore our growth has slowed a little.”

Michael Page was reporting a 38% rise in first-half pre-tax profit of £45.5m, which however fell short of analysts’ consensus forecast of £51m.

Robert Morton at Investec said he would be reducing full-year forecasts, adding that “the recent turmoil in world financial markets will have some impact on global growth rates”.

Lloyds Banking Group declined to comment on its current recruitment, while RBS would say only that it was recruiting “where we have vacancies in specific areas where we need to recruit staff”.

Fisher Capital Management Corporate News: Moody’s: Recent Increase in Asbestos Claims a Warning for U.S. Insurers

Recent disclosures by three insurance companies regarding increased asbestos claims are a “warning flag” for those companies and the U.S. property and casualty industry as a whole, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

In its Weekly Credit Outlook, Moody’s notes that The Hartford, MetLife and American Financial Group have all said asbestos claims increased over the last two weeks. The Hartford reports a pre-tax charge of $290 million due to increased asbestos reserves, and American Financial reports a pre-tax charge of $28 million. MetLife did not disclose the impact on its reserve estimates, Moody’s says, but the company did say that new asbestos claims increased by around 14 percent during the 2011 first half relative to the same time period in 2010.

“Increases in both the frequency and severity of mesothelioma and other cancer claims, increased legal costs, and an expansion of defendants to smaller, more peripheral insureds were cited as the primary drivers of the increase in expected losses,” Moody’s explains.

Fisher Capital Management Corporate News: SEC CHARGES CALIF. COMPANY WITH $10 MILLION BOILER ROOM SCHEME

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The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged a Santa Ana, Calif.-based e-mail marketing company, along with a father and twin sons who are the company’s executives, with defrauding investors in a $10 million boiler room scheme.

The SEC alleges that mUrgent Corporation, chief financial officer Vladislav Walter Bugarski, and his sons Vladimir Boris Bugarski (chief executive officer) and Aleksander Negovan Bugarski (chief operating officer) operated a boiler room to sell mUrgent stock.

Boiler room employees cold-called investors, used high-pressure sales tactics, and misrepresented to investors that mUrgent had a prospering business and would imminently conduct an initial public offering.  The SEC also alleges that mUrgent and the Bugarskis falsely told investors that stock sale proceeds would not be used to pay cash salaries to the Bugarskis.

“mUrgent falsely portrayed itself to investors as a successful company with imminent plans to go public,” said Rosalind R. Tyson, Director of the SEC’s Los Angeles Regional Office. “Instead, the Bugarskis used the company as their personal piggybank.”

According to the SEC’s complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles, mUrgent and the Bugarskis conducted two unregistered securities offerings beginning in 2008 that raised nearly $10 million from at least 130 investors nationwide.

The Bugarskis misused investor money to fund more than $1.3 million in cash salary and bonuses for themselves. They also established a separate “slush fund” of more than $500,000, and used investor funds to pay for luxury cars and other personal expenses.

The SEC seeks permanent injunctions against mUrgent and the Bugarskis for violations of the antifraud, offering registration, and broker registration provisions of the federal securities laws, disgorgement, financial penalties, and an order prohibiting the Bugarskis from serving as officers or directors of any public company.