Michael Gracie 

Don’t believe anyone who wishes you a happy new year, at least if the greeting comes via email. UPDATE: The “Happy New Year” worm is still spreading on the net. Late to the punch…I say. You’d think those worms would know something about internet time (or is that the news I should be criticising?).

It is the last day of 2006. What better time for predictions… From the experts: The security threats that will bind us in 2007 If you are more inclined to make (or lose) money next year, here’s “the take” from the Washington Post Spamroll says: Spam will not end in late January (and Bill Gates [...]

In the movies, the law enforcement types always say that once the kidnappers get the bag of money, the loved ones are going to die. Then the swat team rolls in and everyone gets killed anyway. But when it comes to getting your domain kidnapped, maybe the best move is to negotiate, and then cough [...]

Mike Arrington wonders: Part of the problem is that Google has always held itself to a higher standard than other companies. We took them seriously when they said their corporate motto is “Don’t be evil“. It was the right thing to say when they were young and battling the hated Microsoft. But today, as they [...]

“I am shipping antivirus software for the platform anyway.” – Kapersky (another security company not worried about Vista security).

Are you sitting down? If not, please do, as we don’t need anyone passing out and hitting their head. Ready?

It took laptops disappearing with tens of millions of records on them, but the US Government is finally getting the hint. It’s now full disk encryption for all their computers. Not that it really matters – they are going to have a lot less to protect as of the new year. UPDATE: Bruce Schneier thinks [...]

There were a few M&A deals in the security space during 2006. If bankers have their way, we’ll see an acceleration of deal activity in 2007. Why else would analysts be floating such an idea?

They probably hate it now, since they’ve just admitted they mixed consumer data with airline passenger info while working on the Secure Flight initiative. The process is now considered a serious privacy issue, after DHS culled info from consumer databases provided by Acxiom, Insight America and Qsent. Beyond that fact, auditors found security problems with [...]

Time Magazine punted this year, and declared their “Person of the Year” was you. Yes, you. It was supposedly the year of user generated content – unfortunately, the magazine missed the boat. They forgot that all the user generated content sucks (Spamroll included) – everyone creating that content was too busy fighting viruses to producing [...]