Archive for June, 2005

Security week in review…

Published June 30th, 2005 in Technology. 1 Comment

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Week in Review…

This week saw a fatal blow to P2P companies in America which won’t mean much in the long run because the bad guys will always be able to build better P2P networks and P2P companies can always setup shop in jurisdictions outside the reach of US courts.

Cisco made another big acquisition in Netsift a one year old company for a cool $30M. The company made a product line that appears to be similar to that of Arbor Networks. Word on the net is Cisco does an amazing job at integrating aquisitions into its product lines.

Spyware/Adware was big this week. Microsoft is rumored to be considering controversial adware company Claria (Gator) while at the same time Symantec begin cutting its ties to “Researchware” company ComScore.

Google launched a new video service. 24Hours later DVD Jon hacked it up.

China says its cracking down on piracy…

AMD is suing Intel in America and Japan claiming that Intel coerced vendors into using their product line.

Speaking of lawsuits, someone is suing CardSystems over the breach of their card processing system which may have exposed 40M humans. Oh, then the next day 44 attorney generals decided to send a letter to CardSystems asking it to notify customers that were exposed during the breach. Time to hire a PR team.

Btw, InfoSecDaily has been completely redesigned with additional feeds and a nice little search engine. Be sure to check out the new look.

And that’s the week.

FedEx Furniture

Published June 27th, 2005 in Misc. 6 Comments

If I ever go broke, atleast I know I will have FedEx Furniture.

Not on Attack of the show

Published June 27th, 2005 in Travel. 4 Comments

Since I missed my flight I won’t be on today. But you should watch it anyway.

Attack of the show

Published June 27th, 2005 in Travel and Technology. 1 Comment

OK. I will be on air at 7:00PM EST. Sorry for the misinformation.

More information at the Attack of the show website

Also check out the new InfoSecDaily website.

Women and minorities in Tech

Published June 25th, 2005 in Misc and Technology. 3 Comments

A group of highly paid and well educated researchers have discovered that women and minorities are under represented in the tech industry. I could have taken them to any major tech conference and shown them that. But we all need something to keep us busy.

Wednesday’s report follows other studies that show a decline in women’s representation in the computer science arena and small gains by blacks and Hispanics in scientific, technological, engineering and math occupations.

On another note. Its been hard to find interesting news sources covering minority topics. Most of the black news sites focus on hip hop, which is rather sad. Their are a number of Asian and Hispanic news portals that are interesting and I’ve added them to American Voices. Maybe I am just missing the good websites, so if you know of any (that support RSS) let me know.

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