Father of anti-virus says to invest in security awareness training
I don't want to start a debate here over who invented anti-virus. According to DarkReading it is Peter Tippett.
Threat Chaos
Richard Stiennon delivers a timely, succinct exploration of cyber threats, hack attacks, crime on the web, and information warfare.
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Yippee! Yahoo's board rejects Microsoft's bid
I hope this is not just an attempt to up the offer. Funny that Google news has not picked up on this yet.
Funny. 5/3 Bank advertises malware site in brochure
An alert blogger at BuggStompers picked up a brochure at his last visit to the bank. The brochure, titled "Protect Yourself From Malware" points you to a site to download Spybot search and destroy.
Data protection is impossible
That is the title of my keynote Thursday during the Data Protection Virtual Trade Show. Click here to sign up for this free webinar.
Richard Clarke on recent Mideast cable outages
I just happened to be reading Breakpoint by Richard Clarke last week. The premise for the book is that the US finds itself undergoing a series of attacks on its infrastructure starting with simultaneous bombings of several beach heads for the main trans-Atlantic fiber cables as well as undersea cuttings of the same fiber.
Birth of IPv6
Well tonight's the night. For the first time, IPv6 domain resolution will be possible from a root server.
Don't get excited over cable breaks. Yet.
This weekend there was a lot of hand wringing over some posts to Digg, reddit, and slash dot that pointed to this page at the Internet Traffic Report. There is one router in Iran that is not responding to pings so it shows up red.
Fourth cable cut in Mideast
On top of the news today that yet another cable has been broken connecting the Mideast to the rest of the world we learn that the first two cables were not cut by ships dragging their anchors.According to at least one report an Egyptian ministry examined 24 hour surveillance cameras and found:The transport ministry added that footage recorded by onshore video cameras of the location of the cables showed no maritime traffic in the area when the cables were damaged.
More on Microsoft + Yahoo!
Henry Blodget does a plain vanilla analysis of the Microsoft + Yahoo! merger on Sillicon Alley Insider.
A successful bid for Yahoo! would be death knell for Microsoft
Microsoft has weathered two significant challenges to its world wide monopoly. It is facing the third challenge right now and it is not advertising revenue.