Fear and Loathing in Davos

Few things can evoke more uncertainty and doubt than fear (here)…
The threat of cybercrime is rising sharply, experts have warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Online theft costs $1 trillion a year, the number of attacks is rising sharply and too many people do not know how to protect themselves, they said.
On-line theft costs [...]

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Cloud Computing – The Good, The Bad, and the Cloudy

And on the second day God said “let there be computing – in the cloud” and he gave unto man cloud computing…on the seventh day man said “hey, uhmm, dude where’s my data?”
There has been much talk lately about the “Cloud“. The promise of information stored in massive virtual data centers that exist in the [...]

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The Art of Security and Why Security Vendors are the Root of All Internet Evil

I was reading a book entitled “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, it isn’t terribly well written and has the flow of an idea that was shoe-horned into a literary context, but interesting none the less. Anyway against the backdrop of DNSgate (btw – exploit code has been posted – here [...]

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