Jun
07
2009
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…
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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 |
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May
28
2009
And then, just for good measure, he touted a new McAfee product that can protect you from being duped— protect you from the hysteria he— protect you from the threat he concocted— oh, never mind…
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Apr
27
2009
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…
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Tags: About.com, Costin Raiu, F-Secure, Graham Cluley, John Leyden, Kaspersky Labs, Mark Sunner, Mary Landesman, McAfee, MessageLabs, Mikko Hypponen, Sophos, stovepipe, The Register, Twitter
Chain-letter emails & tweets, Reporters & bloggers, Security vendors | Rob Rosenberger |
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Apr
18
2009
McAfee CMO David Milam will receive a very special envelope sometime this week. Let’s hope he gets well soon. After all: a mind is a terrible thing to waste…
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Apr
17
2009
McAfee’s marketing team has used a solar calculator since 1988 to come up with whatever numbers they think reporters want to hear. Now McAfee insists spam releases 17 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year…
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Apr
12
2009
{Updated 13 Apr 09} You gotta laugh at any virus expert who warns “don’t click links” and then immediately follows his warning with … a link.
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Mar
31
2009
The industry’s major players pooh-pooh a second media hoopla…
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Tags: Conficker, Conflicker, Downadup, IBM, Internet Security Systems, Internet Storm Center, ISS, Kaspersky Labs, McAfee, SANS, Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro, worm
Media circus, Reporters & bloggers, Security vendors | Rob Rosenberger |
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Mar
30
2009
A reporter can fill his daily news quota just by slapping his byline on TrustPort’s veiled press release…
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Mar
22
2009
Antivirus vendors & computer news outlets played a much greater role than they’ll ever admit…
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Tags: Brian Krebs, Graham Cluley, MasterCard, Microsoft, Sophos, Visa, Washington Post
Cyber-war & cyber-terror, Gov't & military, Media circus, Reporters & bloggers, Security vendors, Victims of hysteria | Rob Rosenberger |
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Feb
06
2009
Bradford Networks uses weasel words to promote a client as the only brave soul left standing on an Internet battlefield littered with corpses…
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