Something is wrong when Microsoft turns away a staunchly pro-Redmond computer security critic willing to fly in on his own dime for briefings on their new free antivirus software…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Here’s a trick question for you. Microsoft offers an RSS feed for security vulnerabilities in their own products. Can you name one antivirus vendor that offers an RSS feed for security vulnerabilities in their own products?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Igor Muttik’s column went missing on McAfee’s “Avert Labs Blog” a few hours after he posted it. We can learn an easy lesson by watching Muttik learn a hard lesson…
(Click the headline to read this article…)The popular store chain lost its ability to take credit or debit at the self-checkout on Friday — and they were still down as of Sunday…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Lowe's
An open letter to U.S. Navy CIO Robert J. Carey…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: CIO, CRM, CZAR 52, groupthink, Robert Carey, USAF, USN
A TechRepublic pundit dared to ask if antivirus firms have the right to manipulate DNS queries en masse to protect society from the Downadup worm. This forces us to ask “Who watches the Watchmen?”
(Click the headline to read this article…)“Amazingly, BitDefender offered customers no details about the extent of the damage for more than a day” even though “it potentially exposed Portuguese customers’ names, email addresses and possibly their physical addresses as well…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)Say what? “Zone-h archives show 36 website defacements of international Kaspersky sites since 2000…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)For at least two years, CEO John Thompson’s firm secretly turned over computer viruses to China’s oppressive government — and he kept both Clinton and Bush in the dark about it. News reports now say President Obama wants to nominate him for Commerce Secretary. So — what will “Secretary Thompson” keep secret from Obama?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Why do the folks behind the “Internet Storm Center” rely on an inferior SSL certificate?
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