Their back!
It has been awhile since we had a good old fashioned, highly publicized, hysteria inducing, globally distributed, mass-infecting worm. The AV vendors (here) and (here) must be ecstatic that 2009 is really turning out to be the year of the largest security incidents since the beginning of forever as I predicted it would be [...]
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On Conficker: The Return of the High-Profile Mass Infection Worm
Posted in Security, tagged anti-virus, Botnets, cloud comnputing, Conficker, Fred Ward, Hollywood, Kevin Bacon, McAfee, Microsoft, NAC, Network Access Control, Network Securty Monitoring, Richard Bejlitch, Symantec, Tao Security, Tremors, Verizon Business Services on March 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Cloud computing: Swarm Intelligence and Security in a Distributed World
Posted in Security, tagged Botnets, cloud computing, distributed intelligence, Hoff, Reuven Cohen, Security, Swarm Intelligence, Virtualization on November 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Reading through my blog feeds I came across something Hoff wrote in response to Reuven Cohen’s “Elastic Vapor: Life In the Cloud Blog, in particular I wanted to respond to the the following comment (here)
This basically means that we should distribute the sampling, detection and prevention functions across the entire networked ecosystem, not just to [...]
US Military Seeks to Cyber Bomb Digital Combatants
Posted in Security, tagged Botnets, Cyber Warfare on May 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The US Military is looking to cyber bomb digital enemy combatants (here) back to using an abacus, a stone tablet and some empty cans with string for calculations and communication.
The world has abandoned a fortress mentality in the real world, and we need to move beyond it in cyberspace. America needs a network that can [...]
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