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…
(Click the headline to read this article…)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…)“ooooh, I’m sorry! I could never possibly show you how I derived these extraordinarily round yet highly accurate figures. Our background data is super top secret mega need to know…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)Have reporters finally started to grow bored with this worm? “Contact me when it actually does something…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Conficker, Conflicker, Current World News, Downadup, eCanadaNow, worm
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The major antivirus vendors continue to display a blasé attitude about the Downadup worm. Who in their right mind could predict “potential[ly] 300 to 350 million” infections with no support from the big boys in the industry?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Computerworld, Conficker, Conflicker, dbTechno, Don Jackson, Downadup, Dune, Eagle Eye, Frank Herbert, Gregg Keizer, Lewis Black, movie, Networkworld, Panda Security, PCWorld France, Ryan Sherstobitoff, SecureWorks, TheTechHerald.com, UPI, Wall Street Journal, worm
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It’s been a few years since the media whipped up a frenzy over a virus / worm — and now an established antivirus vendor claims a worm tallied another 6.5 million PCs in just four days. It’s “growing expontentially” according to one press report. So why hasn’t the Downadup worm generated “the perfect storm” of media hysteria?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: About.com, CNN, Conficker, Conflicker, Downadup, F-Secure, Graham Cluley, Headline News, Internet Storm Center, ISS, Kaspersky Labs, Mary Landesman, McAfee, Nimda, Paul Ferguson, SANS, Sophos, Symantec, The Register, Trend Micro
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