Look left, right: no bot clients installed? Then you have probably one. Source: Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 5, 2008
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Archives for March, 2009
Twelve Word Tuesday: Bot Client Are Like Tics – You Don’t Even Know They Are There While They Suck Your Blood
by John Pescatore | March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
Monday Morning Quarterback: The Cybersecurity Czar Revolving Door
by John Pescatore | March 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Associated Press reported the resignation of Rod Beckstrom, director of the DHS National Cyber Security Center. He was appointed just about a year ago (March 2008) and then essentially disappeared. He was an odd appointee, with no background in security or government or anything really related to what the government should be doing about [...]
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Good News Friday: There Are Still Lots of Cool Security Vendors
by John Pescatore | March 6, 2009 | 5 Comments
Every few years there are projections that IT vendors will take over IT security, and/or that IT management vendors will take over security and/or that large IT security vendors will offer one-stop shopping and take over all the security markets. Over the years Microsoft, IBM, CA, Cisco, Network Associates, Symantec and others have charged those [...]
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What I Want For Wednesday: If This Doesn’t Kill Us, It Better Make Us Stronger
by John Pescatore | March 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
I started at Gartner in 1999, and remember what the dot com bubble bursting was like, compounded by the economic jolt of the terrorist attacks against the US in 2001. But this kind of recession/depression is a whole nuther thing - 2009 is to 2001 as a disease is to the flu. Both eventually end, [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: Carpenter Ants Are Not Good Carpenters
by John Pescatore | March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
Having NSA oversee cybersecurity would be like using demolition experts as architects.
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