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…)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 | 
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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…)Tags: David Stansfield, James Middleton, TrustPort, VNUNET
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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…)Tags: Conficker, Conflicker, Current World News, Downadup, eCanadaNow, worm
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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
"Solar calculator" math, Media circus, Reporters & bloggers, Security vendors | Rob Rosenberger | Comments (1)
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…
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