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…)Hysteria thrives wherever the experts lack discipline. When the media latches onto the next “big worm,” we might very well see a lot of Twitter hysteria (”twitsteria”?) from the experts. The intelligence world will recognize it as a “stovepipe” problem…
(Click the headline to read this article…)The industry’s major players pooh-pooh a second media hoopla…
(Click the headline to read this article…)A reporter can fill his daily news quota just by slapping his byline on TrustPort’s veiled press release…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Antivirus vendors & computer news outlets played a much greater role than they’ll ever admit…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Have reporters finally started to grow bored with this worm? “Contact me when it actually does something…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)The major antivirus vendors continue to display a blasé attitude about the Downadup worm. Who in their right mind could predict “potential[ly] 300 to 350 million” infections with no support from the big boys in the industry?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Computerworld, Conficker, Conflicker, dbTechno, Don Jackson, Downadup, Dune, Eagle Eye, Frank Herbert, Gregg Keizer, Lewis Black, movie, Networkworld, Panda Security, PCWorld France, Ryan Sherstobitoff, SecureWorks, TheTechHerald.com, UPI, Wall Street Journal, worm
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In the cyber-terror movie “Eagle Eye,” a flabbergasted Agent Perez asks, “what if it’s a decoy to distract us from something fifty times bigger?!?” In a recent Wall Street Journal story, a flabbergasted Ryan Sherstobitoff spouted almost exactly the same line…
(Click the headline to read this article…)The antivirus firm behind the Downadup hype is now offering prizes to people who test their new product. They don’t want all that global media exposure to go to waste, you know…
(Click the headline to read this article…)It’s been a few years since the media whipped up a frenzy over a virus / worm — and now an established antivirus vendor claims a worm tallied another 6.5 million PCs in just four days. It’s “growing expontentially” according to one press report. So why hasn’t the Downadup worm generated “the perfect storm” of media hysteria?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: About.com, CNN, Conficker, Conflicker, Downadup, F-Secure, Graham Cluley, Headline News, Internet Storm Center, ISS, Kaspersky Labs, Mary Landesman, McAfee, Nimda, Paul Ferguson, SANS, Sophos, Symantec, The Register, Trend Micro
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