Aug
31
2009
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
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
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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Tags: Black Hat, Dan Kaminsky, DEFCON, Edolphus Towns, irony, Kevin Mitnick, LimeWire, Mark Gorton, MI5, Michelle Obama, North Korea, SCADA
Gov't & military, Media circus | Rob Rosenberger |
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Jul
12
2009
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
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
29
2009
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
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
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
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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