Category: Security vendors

Aug 31 2009

Welcoming Mac malware victims

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…

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Aug 12 2009

Somber experts ask “where were you when the Blaster worm struck?”

If you can remem­ber, then it’s be­cause you got paid to fight it. Your money pre­cludes my empathy…

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Aug 10 2009

Poor Conficker … we hardly knew ye

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…

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Jun 07 2009

Obama part 3: a plagiary of President Clinton’s virus hype, 11 years later

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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May 28 2009

French expert gets duped, goes “nutty professor,” spouts hysteria…

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 in the making? Computer security experts lack focus on Twitter

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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Apr 18 2009

A “get well soon” card for McAfee’s chief marketeer

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

“Email spam is destroying life on earth,” but McAfee’s anti-spam software can save our planet

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

New Twitter worm brings out the expert’s irony

{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

Two months later — antivirus firms remain blasé over Conficker / Downadup worm

The industry’s major players pooh-pooh a second media hoopla…

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