A reporter can fill his daily news quota just by slapping his byline on TrustPort’s veiled press release…
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Speaking with an air of authority doesn’t actually make you an authority on a given topic…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Antivirus vendors & computer news outlets played a much greater role than they’ll ever admit…
(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…)French navy spokesman Jérome Erulin said “it was a security problem we had already simulated.” It’s good to know the French military keeps up with their surrender skills…
(Click the headline to read this article…)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
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Major antivirus vendors have remained blasé for more than two weeks. Today, McAfee finally changed their “breaking advisory” notice. It has nothing to do with the Downadup worm…
(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?
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In the cyber-terror movie “Eagle Eye,” a flabbergasted Agent Perez asks, “what if it’s a decoy to distract us from something fifty times bigger?!?” In a recent Wall Street Journal story, a flabbergasted Ryan Sherstobitoff spouted almost exactly the same line…
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