Michael Gracie 

A kid was busted for hacking into Venezuelan government websites and posting silly mockups of these two guys: – Hugo “I openly hate the US and I can because I’m a member of OPEC but I have a secret crush on Pat Robertson” Chavez, and.. – Fidel “I mock the US but I don’t hate [...]

It’s winner take all if you can get in. Not a job, but close.

A professor from South Florida says MySpace is safer for kids than parents think. A couple of thoughts: The prof has street cred – he comes from the spam/scam capital of the world It must be all the cool passwords those kids use Eh hem…I’ll be arrogant just this once – the site ain’t that [...]

Brian Krebs notes after extensive individual study that Internet Explorer was unsafe for 3/4ths of the year during 2006. While I applaud Brian’s efforts, I doubt that comes as much of a surprise to anyone. What is, however, a little shocking is the fact that for more than 3 months out of the year (not [...]

The bad guys are generally pretty smart, so it takes a good guy just as smart to thwart their efforts. Often, the former morphs into the latter for the occasion. I see a lot of job opportunities on the horizon for a certain class of former criminal. UPDATE: Security breaches are getting harder to detect [...]

OpenID, the distributed identity management system, has been around for a while. Nobody really pays much attention to it because it was invented by the LiveJournal crew (think Brad Fitzgerald), and the general consensus around the blogosphere is that LiveJournal is a platform everyone would like to forget even exists. Why? It doesn’t cater to [...]

Now that they’ve purchased IronPort Systems, there’s an anti-spam appliance in the portfolio they can now push. The purchase price was a whopping $830 million. With spam now on even grandma’s mind, I suspect IronPort could have garnered an even higher market cap in the public markets, making it a good deal for Cisco. It’s [...]

That would be for the white-hat types, and the 2006 inductees would be…

Get out! A Trend Micro survey suggests consumers are not confident about internet security. Guess what? Some might start being more careful, and purveyors of goods and services on the net might get their ships tightened up too. Awareness is a very good thing.

We see the world in chaos – nobody seems to get along. Those identifying computer security threats can’t seem to either. I wonder if that is because they are announcing threats only as they develop solutions for them (ones they can sell)? UPDATE: Can’t agree on what, and can’t agree on when either. How about [...]