Michael Gracie 

According to Jeremy Kirk, spam fighters are losing ground. Part of the problem is the negative reinforcement mindset – you don’t get a pat on the back for blocking a billion emails, but you get your ass kicked in the alley for each spam that does get though. Maybe someone should form a spam fighter’s [...]

Three security flaws now officially affect Apple Airport wireless enabled computers. According to the report, which rears its pretty little head not long after the Blackhat exploit (or non-exploit, depending on who you believe), the flaw may cause abitrary code execution, although no known vulnerabilities existed to date. Apple’s PR crew is really managing the [...]

They just didn’t know it. More than 1,100 laptops have gone missing from the governmental body that keeps our economy humming. Inventory gone with the wind dates back to 2001, including a whole bunch of machines from the Census Bureau (containing names and social security numbers too). Nice.

There hasn’t been a lot thought given to potential flaws in RSS, and/or how the XML format might be used to spread bugs – one brief report out of Blackhat is all I’ve heard. But, now that Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and the Vista OS are on the way, Jim Rapoza of eWeek is giving [...]

UK officials figure if they already have cameras everywhere, why not add loudspeakers to them so they can shout at folks engaged in suspicious activities. I wonder what Houston’s police chief thinks about that idea?

Yep, it is going to be a regular Thurday column from here on out (or at least until next Wednesday) – The Google Security Scramble! Todays highlights: – Google figuring out how to monetize email – Google Public Service search makes for easy phishing – Everyone’s cookies are edible, except for Google’s See you next [...]

The 2000 voting debacle in Florida led to a rush for e-voting machines. Those machines, made primarily by Diebold, have been under fire for some time. Diebold refuses to release the source code for scrutiny, citing the propriety of the software. But nobody will have a problem peeking inside the boxes, as you can open [...]

Homeland Security has been searching far and wide for a chief of cybersecurity. Yes, while virtually every US Government department is getting piss poor grades for computer security (including Homeland Security), the bureacrats have been sitting on the fence (then again, what’s new there). Now they’ve found their man. It’s Greg Garcia, former VP of [...]

Choicepoint was forced to pay the FTC $15 million, including $5 million for a victim’s assistance fund, after coughing up a bunch of personal data to a pack of scammers. Now it seems the FTC is in the best of health, as they have yet to “cough up” any of that dough. They must be [...]

A security hole in Microsoft Publisher – how critical is that?