A column we published in 2009 led to the demise of the SCADASEC computer security mailing list. “[I] agree completely with what you have to say,” moderator Bob Radvanovsky explained…
(Click the headline to read this article…)The artist formerly known as “Dr. Kevin G. Coleman, Ph.D.” purchased his doctoral degree from a diploma mill. Now, Coleman’s “Technolytics Institute” will bestow you with IT security certifications for a paltry $275 to $300…
(Click the headline to read this article…)If experts really were pondering the long-term consequences of cyber-warfare, they’d be talking about ephemeral concepts like cyber military graveyards and cyber warfare museums and a solemn “Doolittle Cyber Raiders” ceremony every anniversary for 67 years to commemorate a fateful network attack…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Doolittle Raiders, Ed Horton, USAF
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Many computer security mailing lists routinely violate copyrights. It’s so pervasive that — in theory — you can lapse all of your expensive paid subscriptions and get all of it delivered for free to your inbox…
(Click the headline to read this article…)“Someday they’re going to name a base after a [cyberspace] hero…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: USAF, William T. Lord
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Is this guy ROAD or what? He just got promoted for failing to use his official “bully pulpit 2.0″ for its intended purpose…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: AFCYBER, Billy Mitchell, Charlie Rose, Kevin Chilton, Michael Peterson, USAF CIO, William Shelton, William T. Lord
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If you believe the official story line, USAF aborted “AFCYBER” only at the eleventh hour after they suffered a string of embarrassing nuclear accidents. Here, in Paul Harvey fashion, we reveal “the rest of the story…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: AFCYBER, AFNetOps, AFSPC, Robert Gates, Robert J. Elder, USAF
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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…)Tags: antivirus, Howard Schmidt, Jimmy Kuo, Microsoft, Morro, MSAV
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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…)Tags: Kaspersky Labs, Microsoft, n.runs AG, Symantec, The Register, Thierry Zoller
Kaspersky, Scandalabra | Rob Rosenberger | Comments Off
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…
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