Category: Turn on your BS meter

Dec 01 2009

Degree-mill grad runs a certificate mill for IT security workers

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…

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Aug 10 2009

“Lord AFB” on the horizon?

“Some­day they’re going to name a base after a [cyber­space] hero…”

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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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Sep 29 2008

USAF beams with pride over an absurd cyber-terror movie

USAF beams with pride over an absurd cyber-terror movie...USAF wants to help Hollywood make movies that make USAF look like a bunch of cyber-imbeciles. “Air Force Cyberspace Command is your ally when the plot involves an Air Force-owned supercomputer that goes insane and hacks into an MQ-9 UAV to blow up critical U.S. infrastructures near the nation’s capitol…”

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Jun 16 2008

Internet predicted to die by 2012

A viral video on YouTube insists the Internet as we know it will die by 2012 — killed not by a virus or worm as so often predicted, but by pure corporate greed…

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Jun 16 2008

Logic bomb = 2,000 pound JDAM?

Who needs smart bombs? The U.S. Air Force can wipe out terrorists with two clicks of a mouse…

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Apr 28 2008

We can stop cyber-terrorism with “secure email”?

The third-largest U.S. defense contractor insists they can stop the apocalypse of a “digital war” if everyone switches to “secure email”…

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Apr 28 2008

Wikipedia “Cyber-terrorism” article

Wikipedia’s “cyber-terrorism” article garnered some much-needed criticism from one of the many curators of knowledge out there…

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