The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that Iren Karman was nearly killed: Karman, 40, published a book last year on corrupt oil dealings in the 1990s. The book, titled Facing the Mafia, reported on the practice of “oil bleachingâ€? or the removing of red dye from government-subsidized heating oil in order to sell it as … Continue reading Journalist severly beaten after revealing illegal oil sales
Here is a funny perspective on the life of the security response staff at Microsoft: What do whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers, and employees of Microsoft’s Security Response Center have in common? They all made Popular Science magazine’s 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science. Come on now. Whale-feces research can’t be that bad, … Continue reading Whale-Feces Research and Security
MetaSecurity’s latest post cites McAfee: McAfee now sees more malware programmed to steal passwords for World of Warcraft now than trojans aiming for banking information, said Craig Schumager of the McAfee research labs. This is highly misleading, I say. Banking is not just a brick-and-mortar building with furniture from the 1980s, bad art, and air-conditioning … Continue reading Malware attacks on virtual world greater than on real world
American furniture products should be in the spotlight again following the South Carolina fire that killed nine of Charleston’s best. In 1993 American fire marshals were already campaigning to improve furniture fire safety. However, by 2000, little progress had been made and a law firm in South Carolina called Foster and Foster wrote an advisory … Continue reading Furniture Safety and the South Carolina Disaster