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Why Many Smart Security People Aren’t Social

by Jon Speer

Most of us know and follow a variety of really smart people who say a lot of smart things, but occasionally one of these things sticks and becomes a new lens for how we process the world around us.   I’ve recently realized that a November post from Rajesh Setty’s blog, “Why MANY smart people [...]

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Really? A LinkedIn invite from Bill Gates? How cool am I!?

by Chris Orr

Seriously though…when an experimental phishing attack was tested against anti-spam and phishing filters it succeeded 100 percent of the time. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4791&tag=nl.e539 Can you imagine if it were real? I wonder how many people would really think that Bill Gates is taking personal time to send you (no matter how cool you think you are) an [...]

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Clouds gain steam as LA votes to go Google…

by Chris Orr

Boy I do hope they get this right… any security issues will be problematic for the millions of folks being served by city of Los Angeles. It will certainly raise the profile of cloud computing enough to get the attention of the Pirates that are out their…. Google’s IT Ninjas better be up to the [...]

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The Government has its head in the Clouds…

by Chris Orr

So my colleague Dwayne Melancon has been going on lately about Cloud computing, something that I really don’t think about much myself but I came across this little item from ZDNet about the launch of a new website based largely on government agencies being able to purchase cloud based applications from the likes of Google, [...]

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Talk like a Pirate Day is Sept 19!!!

by Chris Orr

So…Talk Like a Pirate Day is on September 19. This is the day when all ye landlubbers are supposed to go around and say things like Arrr! and Avast! and Keel Haul Him!!!!…. Actually, I often come across people who need to be keel hauled so it is a common phrase around here on a [...]

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Do Pirates Tweet? Use Facebook?

by Chris Orr

Apparently they do, and boy howdy…look out if you get on their bad side. It seems that last weeks major outage of Twitter and the slow down over at Facebook stemmed from the tweets of a single user who made some folks mad. How you cheez someone off in 140 characters I am not sure [...]

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