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- Richard Clarke on recent Mideast cable outages
- I just happened to be reading Breakpoint by Richard Clarke last week. The premise for the book is that the US finds itself undergoing a series of attacks on its infrastructure starting with simultaneous bombings of several beach heads for the main trans-Atlantic fiber cables as well as undersea cuttings...
- Tags: Richard Clarke, Outage, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Fiber, Mideast, Cable Outage, Breakpoint, Threatchaos, Cable, Network Technology, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Changes in store for ThreatChaos
- I just spent nine months as an independent analyst covering the IT security space. You will have noticed that in addition to posting about the threats and rise of cyber crime I began to cover the security industry as well. When I originally started to write Threatchaos I was...
- Tags: Secure Network Fabric, security, network security, network
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
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- Moving on
- I travel a lot. It has been almost ten years since I had a job that was based in the same place I live. Whenever I get a call from friends and family the first question I get is "where are you?" People who have known me for...
- Tags: Blog, Blogging, CBS Interactive Inc., Internet, Richard Stiennon, Webroot Software Inc.
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Does IT matter?
- As someone who has been accused of publicity seeking through grand pronouncements I can understand the motivation behind Nicholas Carr's 2003 article in Harvard Business Review: "IT Doesn't Matter". His main thesis is: For a brief period, as they are being built into the ...
- Tags: Concept, K Mart, Information Technology, Wiki, Matter, Marketswiki.com, Interactive Brokers, Strategy, Management, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-17
- Sumitomo copycat crime in Stockholm
- Longterm readers of Threatchaos will recall the attempted Sumitomo Bank heist in London. In that incident a gang connected to an Israeli crime syndicate infiltrated the London branch of Sumitomo Mitsui and installed hardware key stroke loggers on desktop machines within the bank. With stolen credentials they attempted to transfer...
- Tags: Bank, News, Sumitomo Corp., Financial Services, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Ten threat predictions for 2008
- It is that time of year again. Time to publish my predictions for 2008. ThreatChaos Predictions for 2008 1. Facebook widgets will be used to distribute malware. Facebook, the hugely popular social networking site with millions of users has recently...
- Tags: Game, Google Inc., Facebook, Console, Network, Stock, Google OpenSocial, Game Console, Storm Trojan, Game Console Industry, Games, Social Networking, Game Players, Networking, Security, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Could Apple allow Windows apps to run natively?
- Could Apple allow Windows apps to run natively?would never work 100%They might be much better off buying codeweavers and supporting a few common applications. But claiming a compatibility layer is in my opinion suicide. Microsoft could very easily break that and make Apple look unreliable.Car colors, etc.When Ford Motor Company...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Adrian, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Windows App
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Hacking for profit. SEO techniques.
- I am traveling for the next two weeks. Today I write from the banks of the Thames in Marlow, England, a town that inspires writing if Jerome K. Jerome and Mary Shelley are any indication. Hackers have attacked Al Gore's website, but in an unusual...
- Tags: Technique, Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Site, Hacking, Blogging, Security, Internet, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- How would you fix Microsoft's Windows-development problems?
- How would you fix Microsoft's Windows-development problems?Mr. Allchin's observation...... that intensive work on Longhorn/Vista began only after SP 2, and so required two years rather than 5 appears relevant.Add his comment from an earlier article that design simplification and documentation was a major effort, substantial code wrangling.The bureaucracy and reliance...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Microsoft Corp., MICROSOFT HAS, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, window
- Discussion threads 2006-11-27
- One million zombies
- Just in time for Halloween, Messagelabs is reporting that cyber criminals are assembling a million zombies into one of the largest bot-nets ever. This article speculates that the purpose will be to launch phishing attacks against consumers who are ready to shop this holiday season. Other possibilities are spreading malware...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, distributed denial of service
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
- Trusted Third Party Time Stamps
- Trusted Third Party Time Stamps Here is an interesting service. Surety provides a software solution tied to a trusted service to time and date stamp documents and records. Why would you need to do that? It all revolves around “litigation readiness”. My familiarity with the...
- Tags: Surety
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- House keeping
- I periodically use the ThreatChaos blog to update you on where I am going to be and what I am up to. Some interesting things: The fall event season is already ramping up. On September 16th, I’ll be in the Boston...
- Tags: Disaster recovery, Backups, e-mail
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
- Meet Martin McKeay
- Anyone who has Googled "security + blog" will have noticed Martin McKeay's blog site at www.mckeay.net. I am not sure how he got to the exalted number two position but it probably has something to do with being one of the first to set up a security blog. In...
- Tags: security, blog
- Blog posts 2006-08-01
- Firefox a little less buggy now
- Firefox a little less buggy nowSo I'm not the only one, good. :-)I'm on many hours a day, everyday and yes, I've crashed many times over the last few weeks, more than ever before. I learned of some ext's that don't play well with others and a few that just...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Bloglines, Microsoft Internet Explorer, server
- Discussion threads 2006-04-14
- Give Microsoft an 'A' for effort
- Yesterday Microsoft announced that it was taking legal action in 104 cases against phishers, those clever criminals that put up fake banking and ecommerce sites and try to get you to reveal your username/password to them. While I applaud any effort to prosecute these cyberjerks I am...
- Tags: phishing
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- Bringing order to Threat Chaos
- IT security expert Richard Stiennon joins our expanding team of expert bloggers this week. Richard, whose impressive resume includes stints at Webroot Software VP of threat research and Gartner Inc. VP Research, is no stranger to blogging and the field of security. For the past year at Threatchaos.com, Richard has...
- Tags: Richard
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
- New home
- Blogging changes lives. It changes the writers/publishers and obviously it changes the lives of those who are in the public eye and have to undergo the wrath of irate bloggers that catch them out in some misrepresentation. As many who know my...
- Tags: blog
- Blog posts 2006-02-28
- Happy Anniversary ThreatChaos
- It seems in vogue to celebrate the first anniversary of one’s blog. I guess that makes sense as there are probably 10 million or so people that are doing that in the next several months. First I want to thank Lindsay Arnhold, the marketing genius at Webroot Software whose...
- Tags: Blogging, security, blog
- Blog posts 2006-02-03
- Blackworm already wiping some computers
- According to CNET the Blackworm worm is wiping Windows files from infected machines already. According to their sources at F-Secure there are people with the wrong dates set on their computers so the worm is mistakenly kicking off early. If there are truly millions of machines infected there will probably...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Blackworm, computer
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
- Do you need a CSO?
- This article was generated in response to a survey that found that 24% of companies surveyed had a Chief Security Officer. I have always believed that responsibility for an organization’s security should rest on the shoulders of someone. Let’s face it despite the constant barrage of news stories...
- Tags: security
- Blog posts 2005-12-06
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