Category: Media circus

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 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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Jul 30 2009

Black Hat & DEFCON panelists: “Michelle Obama is doomed!”

Given all the media hoopla, you’d think a horri­fying BIND 9 vul­ner­a­bility has com­bined with a leaked top secret P2P file to guaran­tee the death of the First Lady…

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Jul 12 2009

Rep. HoaxsterHoekstra panders to Asian media

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?

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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 29 2009

Obama part 2: where did his “$1 trillion” guesstimate come from?

Federal agencies rely on super­sti­tious rhetoric when it comes to cyber­space secu­rity. Obama doesn’t want change here — he clearly wants Ameri­cans to accept the status quo

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May 29 2009

Obama (!) spouts an urban legend in his cybersecurity speech

It doesn’t make it any more real when it flows from the lips of the president of the United States…

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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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Mar 22 2009

Two decades of virus hysteria contributes to the success of fake-AV scams

Antivirus vendors & computer news outlets played a much greater role than they’ll ever admit…

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Feb 06 2009

Security firm taps into sole survivor mythos

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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