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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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
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…)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
Press releases, Reporters & bloggers | Rob Rosenberger | Comments Off
Bradford Networks uses weasel words to promote a client as the only brave soul left standing on an Internet battlefield littered with corpses…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Bradford Networks, Conficker, Conflicker, Downadup, Elizabethtown College
Media circus, Press releases, Security vendors | Rob Rosenberger | Comments Off
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…
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