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Archives for April, 2009


Twelve Word Tuesday: Attackers Say “Tweet on This”

by John Pescatore  |  April 14, 2009  |  2 Comments

Malware just taught Twitter the lesson Microsoft learned in 2001: security matters.

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April Showers Bring Cybersecurity Hype In Hope of Budget Flowers

by John Pescatore  |  April 13, 2009  |  2 Comments

I was on vacation all last week and barely touched a computer all week – ah, it was nice. Actually, I barely touched a PC – I spent the week living digitally on my new iPhone, which replaced my lost Blackberry. But, more on that later. While I was enjoying the week off, there was [...]

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If a Tree Does Not Fall in a Forest, Did All the Yelling of “TIMBER!!!” Keep It Up?

by John Pescatore  |  April 2, 2009  |  3 Comments

Back in the mid/late-1990′s, Gartner was pretty active warning about Y2K date code problems. By 1999, Y2K hysteria got pretty feverish – “60 Minutes” even dedicated segments to Y2K in November 1998 and May 1999. Then after the clock turned over to 00:00:01 2000 and the world didn’t end, there was a lot of discussion [...]

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