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Comment on Iran accuses CNN of waging a “cyber war” by xfmrhsd

xfmrhsd — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:10:36 +0000

Denial of Service attack on a country that denies access, funny.

Comment on Iran accuses CNN of waging a “cyber war” by xfmrhsd

xfmrhsd — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:08:25 +0000

A DOS Attack? on Iranian Gov’t sites? Why that would be like…..say …… a MAC Laptop PC infiltrating and dropping a devastating virus attack on….say…..an alien invading army’s computer network, completly disarming their force fields, allowing us to destroy their ships and save the world just in time for Independance Day! Maybe Qashqavi is looking for a movie studio to buy his screenplay? Just a thought…. OH and the video loaded for me, nya nya.

Comment on French expert gets duped, goes “nutty professor,” spouts hysteria… by Rob Rosenberger

Rob Rosenberger — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:08:14 +0000

Humor deserves a place in even the most serious corporate security blogs, Francois. But you’ve got to make it obvious in your case. Your column doesn’t even say “humor” or “parody” in your categories & tags. I encourage you to add those keywords. My very best to you!

Comment on French expert gets duped, goes “nutty professor,” spouts hysteria… by FPaget

FPaget — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:25:09 +0000

After writing this blog, I discovered it is very difficult for a non native English guy to write a humorous post in another language than French.
Yes, when I discovered this video, I found it was really very funny. The video remembered me an old post I never published, a post speaking about SCADA risks, but introduced by a flying soccer story.
I decided to mix the both. I did not explain I do not believe an UFO is able to light off a part of a city, and I imagined the sentence “I have some doubts about the technical aspects of these light-show “attacks” on unprepared buildings” was sufficient to demonstrate I was not fooled.
Reading your post (and some others) I made a mistake and I will stay more serious in the future.
Francois

Comment on Obama (!) spouts an urban legend in his cybersecurity speech by Andrews

Andrews — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:14:45 +0000

One More…

I will write on this alter, as I have to run in a few minutes, but here is an interesting article on Obama’s speech spouting an urban myth. Can’t wait for his task force to solve all those cattle mutilations and get the alligators out of the sewers…..

Comment on Hysteria in the making? Computer security experts lack focus on Twitter by Rob Rosenberger

Rob Rosenberger — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:03:05 +0000

I agree, Graham. Half of Leyden’s tweets right now seem to revolve around his kickball team.

But hey, if it’s any consolation … you only appeared in my column because I couldn’t resist the line about “Cluley’s inability to time-shift a TV time traveler.” :-)

On a serious note: I hope my observations will shift the way AV experts use Twitter. When I read something like “on the way home, I posted a letter!”, I expect to see it in Justin Hayward’s diary, not an antivirus expert’s tweet.

I view Twitter much like I view the telephone. Sure, you might work out of your home office, but you install a second phone line in the name of professionalism. You don’t want the CEO of BuggleWarp Corp. to hear “yeah, I think he’s surfing in the den room. DAD! Some guy on the phone for you…”

AV experts need a professional Twitter account just like they need a professional phone line.

Either that, or we need the CNN news ticker to start tweeting us on all the great things Robin Meade is doing at every hour of the day. “Obama unveils new cyber security report … N Korea detonates fourth nuclear test … Wolf Blitzer getting a bit fussy in the makeup chair…”

Comment on Hysteria in the making? Computer security experts lack focus on Twitter by GrahamCluley

GrahamCluley — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:34:47 +0000

I reckon over 99% of my Tweets aren’t about Dr Who, so although I may not have 20-20 vision my focus is pretty good. :)

PS. When talking to John Leyden on the phone he’s often discussed “Doctor Who” with me (I imagine next time he calls he’ll ask my opinions on the new companion who was announced to the world today), so I doubt he’ll unfollow me for that reason. ;-)

Comment on Irony abounds in USAF cyberspace hysteria snafu by bigboid

bigboid — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:51:17 +0000

I’m just a little curious. Aside from the fact the picture shows the interior of the AF NetOps Center (bad enough), and despite the fact that several of the SIPR terminals are not locked when the picture was taken, none of the information that could be gleaned from this picture appears to be classified. The Zulu time doesn’t matter, the AFNOC Mission is unclassified, the Crew Assignments are probably unclassified, and the C2 Relationship slide is too small to read intelligibly. The same is true for any of the NIPR or SIPR screens in the foreground. So, what exactly makes this a classified photo? You can’t even read the name tapes on the BDUs, so there’s no OPSEC worry. Maybe these are the same people as listed on the Crew Assignments slide, but maybe not. I agree that it is highly unnecessary to put this out for public consumption. That’s a given.

Comment on Hysteria in the making? Computer security experts lack focus on Twitter by dharley

dharley — Sun, 03 May 2009 10:10:59 +0000

Without wishing to be absorbed in my own celebrity status, I have two reasons for spending time on twitter. (1) Early security info is now getting onto twitter before it gets onto specialist lists and sometimes -instead- of seclists. Occasionally, that makes it worth skimming the dross. I haven’t yet decided whether the additional skimming on facebook is worth the time overhead, but it has its recreational advantages. (2) Facebook supports my work-related blogging, which may not change the world very much, but is meant to, a bit at a time.

I presume those swine flu tweets are about using the flu as a social engineering hook, which is happening a lot, rather than about the flu itself, but I haven’t checked ‘em.

Comment on Hysteria in the making? Computer security experts lack focus on Twitter by ShaunDay

ShaunDay — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:58:02 +0000

As I type, the two most recent tweets from McAfee are not about computer viruses, but about a human virus – namely the swine flu. Vaguly interesting I guess. There’s far too much stovepiping in the media already.

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