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…)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
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…
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…)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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Security vendors, Website issues | Rob Rosenberger | Comments Off
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…
(Click the headline to read this article…){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.
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: F-Secure, irony, Mikko Hypponen, Twitter, updated
Security vendors | Rob Rosenberger | Comments Off
The industry’s major players pooh-pooh a second media hoopla…
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