Mar 08 2009

Virus cripples self-checkout aisles at Lowe’s hardware stores

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…

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Feb 20 2009

I can’t save the airmen, so I’ll save the sailors

An open letter to U.S. Navy CIO Robert J. Carey…

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Feb 16 2009

DNS redirection — do antivirus firms have the right to do it en masse?

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?”

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Feb 16 2009

BitDefender (mis)handles PR over their hacked website

“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…”

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Feb 08 2009

Kaspersky website gets hacked (again)

Say what? “Zone-h archives show 36 web­site deface­ments of inter­national Kaspersky sites since 2000…”

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Jan 28 2009

Why Symantec’s CEO shouldn’t be Obama’s Commerce Secretary

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?

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Jan 25 2009

SANS.org “security certificate” lacks security

Why do the folks behind the “Internet Storm Center” rely on an inferior SSL certificate?

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Jan 24 2009

What’s missing in this virus survey?

Sophos took a survey to see who their customers are blaming for the spread of the Downadup worm. Sadly, their survey didn’t let anyone point a finger at “antivirus software, for failing to do its job…”

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Jan 20 2009

SANS worries Obama inauguration itself threatens Internet

A blogger at SANS worries that innocent and well-meaning Internet users will threaten the very foundations of the Internet during the inauguration of Barack Obama…

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Dec 03 2008

Part 2: USAF CIO on hiatus, or what?

{Updated 8 Dec 08} The USAF CIO, Lt. General Michael Peterson, finally updated his stag­nant web­site — with five civilian news­paper articles. First of all, did he obtain the reprint rights, or is this a blatant copy­right viola­tion? And second, why didn’t he high­light some of USAF’s many organic press releases…?

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