Five years ago on this date, Lt. Col. Mark Hedden hoodwinked the entire United States Air Force. And in so doing, he proved USAF will drop cyber bombs on anything labeled as fact in a PowerPoint slide…

One pundit exclaimed “for 99.99999% of us, [it] was just another day on the Internet…”

A story­board on the deck of a historic ship tells a tale that ends almost exactly like the pom­pous contri­vance for the Gulf War printer virus hoax…

Know this: there is no real “computer virus angle” to this story. It’s about an extra­ordi­narily gullible man who got bilked for millions over a very long time. Every­thing else is an anecdote — espe­cially the computer virus…

Vmyths archives its Twitter feed for historical clarity…

Should legit antivirus firms analyze & use the sales tactics of fake antivirus firms?

This guy’s lame piece of malware gave birth to U.S. Cyber Command. But no one knows his name! Imagine the all-consuming frustration this guy must live with…

How many times does one virus expert need to re-tweet a link to a blog entry he posted a few hours ago? How will we get timely computer security news if all the experts start playing “king of the hill” on Twitter?

Take John Hamre’s absurd panoply from the late 1990s … change the dates & names … and (ta da!) you’ve got William Lynn’s absurd panoply…

Since when did the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense become the world’s #2 hacker? Did he only declassify a secret cyber operation so he could write for a commercial publication? And why did it take this guy nine years to hear a “wake-up call”?