Reuters said on Monday that a second telecom company in Saudi Arabia will block SMS messages intended as votes for a TV show: Saudi religious scholars last May condemned the hugely popular talent show aired by Lebanese channel LBC as a crime against Islam when a young Saudi returned to a hero’s welcome after winning … Continue reading Watch, but you can’t vote→
NetworkWorld quoted the AT&T CISO, Ed Amoroso: The past decade has been tough – the security industry has lost its way. At one point we had no security; now there’s too much. This has been the era of security getting worse and worse. Today there’s too much software from vendors that needs to be patched. … Continue reading Carriers liable for end-point security→
I’ve been writing too many comments again on Schneier’s blog lately, so I thought I’d post a few interesting things here instead. This article from the History News Network caught my attention with some interesting insights into the risks from various Presidents and how they stack up from a historian’s point-of-view: The George W. Bush … Continue reading Historians rate the US presidents→
F-secure has an excellent write-up on their blog that details an impending Sober attack, scheduled for January 06, 2006: Sober.Y was the biggest email outbreak of the year. It still is responsbile for around 40% of all the infections we see. This variant is programmed to activate on January 6th, 2006. After this date all … Continue reading Sober Day, 2006→