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…)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…)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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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
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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
“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…)Tags: addictive update model, BitDefender, Dan Goodin, Kaspersky Labs, The Register
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Say what? “Zone-h archives show 36 website defacements of international Kaspersky sites since 2000…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Kaspersky Labs, The Register, Vmyths, Wayback Machine, Zone-H
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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…)Tags: China, FBI, Fox News, John Thompson, Richard Clarke, Secretary of Commerce, Symantec, The China Syndrome, White House, Y2K
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