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We all know the real estate market in Williamsburg is cra-zay, but apparently it's driving the real estate brokers nuts, too update: Justin Farrow returned our email and explained that he is no longer a real estate agent. In this video, area man Justin Farrow shows off his sweet bachelor pad, inside a van in an abandoned warehouse. Crazy, or crazy like a fox? Something to consider when you're signing the rent check in a couple of days. Be sure to check out his view from the roof at the four minute mark (and place bets in the comments on how soon Farrow removes the video after the Internet figures out the location):

And with the money he saves on rent, he can afford plenty of rat traps! Farrow, who also does a lot of street art photography and does not appear to be your average unctuous Glengarry Glen Ross-type realtor, explains:

Don't be scared. This is a simple experiment in housing. In an undisclosed location, inside one of the most desirable neighborhoods to live in the US (Williamsburg, Brooklyn), I am purposefully living inside my van, parked in a 4 story spooky warehouse which is currently for sale for over $25 million dollars. In less than a year, this building will be converted into hundreds of condos. As a real estate agent for over 10 yrs in NYC, I could live anywhere I want, but I chose this. In a round-about-way, this is my statement on Gentrification as New World Colonialism. More to come...

As Farrow boasts at the top of the video, "I got everything I need in here. Flatscreen TV...All of the comforts of home. Kinda." See, this guy knows how to beat the system. By choice.

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Deed and Record now provides internet service for Successor Trustees. Deed and Record prepares the affidavit death of trustee and the quit claim transfer deed; prepares and files required transfer tax exemptions and records the affidavit and deed with the proper government authority.

Irvine, CA (PRWEB) February 28, 2012

Real estate property held in trust by a person who has died can be transferred as directed in the trust without going through probate. The transfer often requires two documents; an affidavit death of trustee and a quit claim deed. The quit claim deed is from the trust to the beneficiaries of the trust.

Affidavit Death of Trustee

This document is a declaration, under oath, by the successor trustee. The successor trustee declares the owner has died and attaches a certified copy of the death certificate. The successor trustee further declares he or she is authorized to take control of the real estate property according to the terms of the trust.

The affidavit is filed with the county recorder. It is now of public record the successor trustee has the authority to take control. Control is limited to what is directed by the trust. Typically, the trust directs the successor trustee to distribute the real estate property to specified persons.

Quit Claim Deed

The second step is preparing a quit claim deed from the trust to the beneficiaries of the trust or entering into a listing agreement for the sale of the real property. If sold, the proceeds from the sale of the real property are distributed to the persons identified in the trust and quit claim deed is not needed.

A quit claim deed does not contain any implied warranties. The successor trustee who “quit claims” real estate simple conveys whatever ownership interest the trust has along with any debt or loans secured by the property. The successor trustee makes no promises and the property is taken “as is.” A quit claim is the easiest and cheapest way to transfer ownership out of a trust.

For more information - http://deedandrecord.com/trust_transfers/after_death_trust_transfers

call 949-474-0961 or go to http://www.deedandrecord.com

Trust Administration on Death of First Spouse: Funding of Bypass Trust and Survivor’s Trust

Often a trust directs on the death of the first spouse the trust is to be divided into two separate trusts, a bypass trust and a survivor’s trust. The purpose of the two trusts is to preserve the deceased spouse’s exemption from the estate tax. The estate tax is often referred to as the death tax.

Deed and Record prepares the affidavit death of first spouse and the quit claim transfer deed; prepares and files required transfer tax exemptions and records the affidavit and deed with the proper government authority.

The affidavit of death is a declaration, under oath, by the surviving spouse. The surviving spouse declares the other spouse has died and attaches a certified copy of the death certificate. The surviving spouse further declares he or she is authorized to take control of the real estate property according to the terms of the trust.

The affidavit is filed with the county recorder. It is now of public record the surviving spouse has full and sole authority to take control of the real estate property.

The second step it to prepare and record a quit claim deed to fund the Bypass Trust and Survivor’s Trust. This step requires a division of all assets owned by husband and wife. A review of the trust document, notification to heirs of the creation of the Bypass trust and division of assets is required. The services of an attorney are required at this stage.

To consult with an estate administration attorney call Mark W. Bidwell at 949-474-0961. For more information please go to http://www.BidwellLaw.com

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Damballa Inc., the company transforming the fight against cyber threats, today released results of its discovery of advanced stealth techniques used by six crimeware families to carry out global cyber attacks. The crimeware families are a new Zeus variant, Bamital, BankPatch, Bonnana, Expiro.Z and Shiz. The crimeware has been evading detection because cyber criminals are rapidly adopting domain generation algorithms (DGAs). This technique is being used to completely evade detection by blacklists, signature filters, and static reputation systems and to hide command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure. DGAs are also referred to as a form of Domain Fluxing.

An eight-page Damballa Research Report describes, for the first time, how six known malware families have been using DGAs to evade detection and grow sizable criminal networks. The oldest, BankPatch, has been using DGAs to evade detection for approximately two years. Without having to reverse engineer malware or 'decode' the DGA algorithm, Damballa Labs can now automatically detect and model DGA behavior by using patent-pending machine learning technology. The report is titled DGAs in the Hands of Cyber-Criminals - Examining the State of the Art in Malware Evasion Techniques.

The company also released a detailed analysis of a recent variant of the Zeus version 3 malware, and for the first time, provided details on its use of DGAs as a secondary connection technique when the primary connection attempt is blocked or fails (the primary connection technique being peer-to-peer). The case study is titled DGAs and Cyber-Criminals – A Case Study.

“While DGAs are not new, the rate at which they are being adopted and their ability to elude the scrutiny of some of the most advanced malware analysis professionals should be of great concern to incident response professionals,” stated Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research for Damballa. “We have found that the security community as a whole has insufficiently or only partially analyzed the network behaviors of DGA-capable malware. For one, some advanced malware is using DGA as a secondary connection technique when the primary technique, let’s say peer-to-peer, has failed. Those charged with protecting the enterprise that have detected or blocked the obvious primary connection technique have failed to counter the back-up technique, and the malware can then successfully locate the C&C using DGAs.”

DGAs first made major news with the outbreak of Conficker. Since that time, the DGA techniques have significantly advanced and are now being adopted by some of the more stealthy threats and by criminals desperately seeking to avoid attribution.

The concept of DGAs is simple enough, but incredibly stealthy. Malware that has infected an endpoint device is programmed with an algorithm that uses a ‘seed’ value, like the current date, to generate potentially hundreds of seemingly random domain names that all attempt to resolve to an IP address. Nearly all of the domain names will result in a ‘non-existent’ domain message (NXDomain). Only one or a few will actually resolve to an IP address. The criminal operator, knowing the nature of the algorithm and the seed that will be used that day, will register only one (or a few) of the domains and have them resolve to his C&C infrastructure. The next day the cycle repeats. The domains used for the previous day’s connection are discarded, meaning the domain names are ‘thrown away,’ and even if detected, would be meaningless in stopping the threat or discovering the criminal C&C.

“With the leak of the Zeus source code and expanding investment by criminal operators to hide and protect their C&C infrastructure, we should expect to see more DGA-based malware being used to deliver ever-increasingly stealthy attacks,” said Ollmann. “At Damballa Labs we have been studying this trend and have two patent-pending machine learning technologies specifically designed to identify DGA-based threats by clustering NXDomains from big data that we maintain from years of monitoring global DNS traffic. We can identify these threats without prior interception or knowledge of malware samples, and as described in the case study, map this DGA-based behavior back to the C&C infrastructure and ultimately to the malware family. DGA ‘classifiers’ are then used on the Damballa Failsafe sensors to automatically and rapidly identify DGA-based malware infected devices in customer networks – attributing the behavior to a specific malware family without having to see the malware or the infection occur. Damballa is the only company with this capability today. I am very proud of what the research team at Damballa Labs has been able to accomplish.”

About Damballa

Damballa is a pioneer in the fight against cybercrime. Damballa provides the only network security solution that detects the remote control communication that criminals use to breach networks to steal corporate data and intellectual property, and conduct espionage or other fraudulent transactions. Patent-pending solutions from Damballa protect networks with any type of server or endpoint device including PCs, Macs, Unix, smartphones, mobile and embedded systems. Damballa customers include mid-size and large enterprises that represent every major market, telecommunications and Internet service providers, universities, and government agencies. Privately held, Damballa is headquartered in Atlanta. http://www.damballa.com

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LONDON, February 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Rule Financial, (http://www.rulefinancial.com), an independent provider of business consultancy, IT consultancy and IT services to the global investment banking community, today announces an increase in sales and a raft of senior hires to support its growing business. Rule Financial has strengthened its presence in New York, made a number of senior hires in London and expanded its presence in ?ód?, Poland, illustrating the increased demand for Rule Financial's onshore and nearshore services.

Rule Financial has experienced year-on-year growth with 2011 revenue coming in ahead of target and the company growing its footprint within nine of the top ten global investment banks. In the current market conditions, this growth reflects the requirements of capital market participants for specialist domain knowledge, particularly in regard to new regulation, such as Dodd-Frank, Basel III and the ICB ring-fencing proposals.

The company's offices in New York and Poland have grown considerably with the number of employees more than doubling over the past 12 months. In ?ód?, specifically, Rule Financial has attracted a highly skilled and enthusiastic new workforce from the city's leading universities, fuelling growth in a nearshore development and support service that is proving to be highly attractive for its banking clients.

As part of the enhanced team in New York, Ciaran Henry joins Rule Financial, bringing his extensive experience of capital markets and applying these skills to a range of new clients. Ciaran, who reports into CEO Chris Potts, has over 25 years of experience in capital markets technology, gained at some of the world's leading investment banks; previously holding MD positions in the technology organisations of Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, and Credit Suisse.

Regarding his appointment, Ciaran said: "Rule Financial has an industry-wide reputation for innovation and excellent project delivery and I'm delighted to be part of its expansion in the US market. The rapidly changing regulatory environment in the United States, fuelled by the ever evolving Dodd-Frank and the Volcker Rule, is creating significant challenges for global investment banking. As we support our clients in meeting these complex regulations, I anticipate further growth of the New York team."

In London, Rule Financial continues to reinforce its domain strength and has appointed Jim Warburton as global head of the investment banking domain group, which will lead the development of client-focussed propositions. Jim has gained extensive banking experience from working in roles such as Senior Vice President at Citigroup and Director at Credit Suisse, as well as providing consultancy for many other financial organisations. Jim brings expertise in securities processing, covering Settlement, Clearing and Corporate Actions, on the sellside, buyside and within private banking.

Regarding his appointment, Jim said: "Investment banks around the world rely on Rule Financial for support with projects in core areas such as OTC derivatives clearing, collateral management and optimisation, as well as multi-platform UX design and build for eTrading and risk reporting. We have also witnessed a growing demand for application support and managed services that deliver cost savings and business efficiencies. I am keen to provide innovative new propositions that genuinely help our clients accelerate change and reap the benefits of leading business and IT innovation."

Reporting to Jim is new hire Jeremy Taylor, a specialist in operational processing and derivatives. Jeremy will be leading the delivery of Rule Financial's client offerings in the OTC derivatives area and related regulatory reforms.

Chris Potts, CEO, Rule Financial, said: "Growing the business in 2011 was a tremendous achievement for Rule Financial and a testament to the high quality work our specialists are performing within banks. Our consultants are the foundation of our business and we recruit and develop domain experts who truly innovate to solve the needs of the world's leading banks. We fully intend to develop these capabilities in 2012 with more investment in our domain experts and delivery teams, to offer world-class support to our growing client base."

About Rule Financial

Rule Financial is a leading independent provider of business and IT services, employing over 350 people in the UK, the USA, Spain and Poland. Our specialists work alongside their counterparts at the world's leading investment banks, hedge funds and financial institutions, helping to lower costs, improve productivity and extract the maximum value from IT investments.

We cover all aspects of advisory, execution and support services. Our domain specialisms include: Securities Finance, Prime Services, Risk Management, Trading, Legal & Compliance and Operations. Our delivery specialisms include: advisory and execution services in system development, user-centric design, software development, integration, testing, on-going support and IT outsourcing.

We offer our clients end-to-end solutions that solve their complex business and IT issues. Our specialists have a deep understanding of the increasing regulatory pressures faced by financial institutions and a number of our recent engagements have included strategic consultancy around OTC derivatives regulation and the implications of central clearing on integrated systems and collateral management.

web: http://www.rulefinancial.com

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27-02-2012 10:09 Cody Hall, son of Scott Hall, training at the Team Vision Dojo is looking to make his mark in the world of professional wrestling. (filmed 2/27/12)

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