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AdvisorHUB site tried to sell broker data to major wirehouses

December 29, 2014 publisher addresses-were, china-based, daily-reading, down-on-monday, elizabeth, government, lacked-the-word, market-overseas, million-unique, picture, the-brokerage, york, zenica

By Elizabeth Dilts NEW YORK (Reuters) – (This is a correction to Dec. 19 story, which originally lacked the word ‘temporarily’ in 11th paragraph.) AdvisorHUB, a year-old gossip and news website for the brokerage industry, has become such a part of brokers’ daily reading routine that some call it the “New York Post of financial news.” The website’s founder, Andrew Parish, says the site has 200,000 registered users and gets half a million unique hits a month. …

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Obama mocks absurd plot twist of cyber attack on Sony

December 20, 2014 creative cyber-attack, daily-reading, did-not, elizabeth, faced, government, million-unique, most-destructive, obama, picture, president-barack, the-brokerage, zenica

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Faced with the most destructive cyber attack of a company on U.S. soil, President Barack Obama resorted to humor to explain an absurd plot that even Hollywood did not see coming.

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Risk modelers look to clarify cyber risk costs

December 19, 2014 publisher buy-insurance, calculate-how, cyber-attack, did-not, elizabeth, faced, file-picture, government, million-unique, obama, picture, president-barack, the-brokerage, warsaw

By Luciana Lopez NEW YORK (Reuters) – Even as the Sony Corp cyber attack laid bare the kinds of vulnerabilities that typically drive companies to buy insurance policies, the lack of a risk model for insurers means such protection is not always easy to get.