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…

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

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?”

“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…”

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

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?

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

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…”

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…

{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…?