So apparently the latest version of the Qualys Laws of Vulnerabilty Report has Qualys jumping to some pretty outrageous claims about how cloud-computing – invented by Qualys according to Courtot (insert cute smiley here) – can secure IT more effectively or allow people to not patch any more or some such nonsense (thanks to Hoff [...]
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Cloud-Computing Solves Patching Problem…IT Admins Please Report to HR for Immediate Dismissal
Posted in Security, tagged Altiris, cloud computing, DLP, endpoint security, Gerhard Eschelbeck, IBM, Law of vulnerability, Luke Skywalker, Micro, Microsoft, NAC, Philippe Courtot, Quays, SCCM, silly proclamations, SMS, Storm trooper fail, Symantec, Wolfgang Kandek on May 7, 2009 | 6 Comments »
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
The 11 Worst Ideas in Security
Posted in Security, tagged anti-virus, Britney Spears, CPAV, death, DLP, Gartner, IDS, Microsoft, NAC, passowrds, security vendors, Stiennon, Symantec, Things that go bump in the night, total suckage, VC funding, Vulenrbility Disclosure, WEP on August 22, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Now of course it would be easy to slap the hide of NAC, IDS, and DLP technologies, but why kick something when it is down, besides we have Stiennon for that (here)…so I give you the 11 worst ideas in security, presented in far less a grumpy format than Ranum’s 6 dumbest ideas in security [...]
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