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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘McAfee’
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 »
Fear and Loathing in Davos
Posted in Security, tagged Craig Mundie, Cyber Warfare, cybercrime, Dave Dewalt, DAVOS, DoS, facebook, FUD, McAfee, Microsoft, youtube on February 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Moving Security through Visibility to Implementing Operational Controls
Posted in Security, tagged Auditing, BigFix, cloud computing, Gartner, IDS, Intrusion detection, Intrusion prevention, IPS, McAfee, Monitoring, nCircle, network security, Risk, threats, Virtualization, vulnerabilities, Vulnerability Assessment on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Quick thought for the day. Most technologies in the security world move through a predictable cycle of adoption. First an organization implements a solution to gain visibility into the scope of the problem (VA, IDS, DLP/CMF, SIEM) then once it becomes apparent that the problem is vast and overwhelming they move to operationally implement technical [...]
Hilarity Ensues: 10 Years of Tech Fail
Posted in Security, tagged Circuit City, DIVX, FAIL, HD DVD, Internet Bubble, Linden Dollars, McAfee, Microsoft, Mitch Kapor, Oakley Thump, Second Life, SONY BMG Rootkit, Symantec, The Millennium Bug, The paperless office, Windows ME, Windows Vista, Y2K on November 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well friends we are nearing the end of another year and closing in on the first decade of the century. As we prepare for the onslaught of 2009 predictions I thought it would be appropriate to look back on all that is FAIL in the world of technology over the past decade so we can [...]
Twitter Feed- amrittsering: rt @415 #BSidesBay December 12: Discover the next big thing! Pirates, BBQ & fun! http://bit.ly/BSidesBay November 21, 2009
- amrittsering: @catalyst That would require much too long a response for Twitter =) November 21, 2009
- amrittsering: rt @miscsecurity @amrittsering rational people haven't been around since the fifties :) <-- Yes, well, except for the whole Korean war thing November 21, 2009
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