“At the moment we have drivers licenses for cars, and cars are very dangerous machines. Computers are also quite dangerous in the way that they can make people vulnerable to fraud…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)We’re not saying give them special treatment. Only that it’s time to treat these former fanboys with the respect and humility they deserve, and help keep them malware-free and save them from bad design…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Macintosh, Sophos, Symantec, The Register
Media circus, Press releases, Security vendors, Victims of hysteria | Gordon Fecyk | 
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If you can remember, then it’s because you got paid to fight it. Your money precludes my empathy…
(Click the headline to read this article…)You can always count on the computer media to do two things. First they’ll go insane with misdirected security hype — and then they’ll ignore the real threat(s) after they realize just how badly they got hoodwinked by their own misdirection…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Given all the media hoopla, you’d think a horrifying BIND 9 vulnerability has combined with a leaked top secret P2P file to guarantee the death of the First Lady…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Question #1: how many Asian reporters can you spot in the photo? Question #2: how many of them knew in advance this guy was going to call for a military cyber-attack against North Korea?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Associated Press, irony, North Korea, Peter Hoekstra, Susan Walsh, Wired
Cyber-war & cyber-terror, Gov't & military, Media circus, Reporters & bloggers | Rob Rosenberger | Comments Off
If that’s a war, then what words will we cheapen when something worse comes along? Will we call it a “cyber genocide”? A “cyber holocaust,” perhaps?
(Click the headline to read this article…)President Obama’s cybersecurity speech is essentially the same as President Clinton’s speech 11 years ago — right down to the debut of a flawed presidential report…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, CIA, irony, McAfee, SANS, Tom Donahue, White House
Cyber-war & cyber-terror, Gov't & military, Media circus, Press releases | Rob Rosenberger | Comments Off
Federal agencies rely on superstitious rhetoric when it comes to cyberspace security. Obama doesn’t want change here — he clearly wants Americans to accept the status quo…
(Click the headline to read this article…)It doesn’t make it any more real when it flows from the lips of the president of the United States…
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