ZDT authors shed light on cybercrime explosion
April 17, 2008
Click here to listen to part one of our recent interview with RSA’s Paul Joyal, host of Speaking on Security, a podcast aimed at tech security professionals, in which we illuminate in plain English the rising hazard of cybercrime. Click here to listen to part two of the interview, in which we describe how and why Zero Day Threat, the book, came to be.
Tech security stories earns journalism award
April 15, 2008
Our 2007 tech security stories published in USA TODAY has earned an Excellence in Financial Journalism Award from the New York State Society of Certified Public Accounts. Good to know our stories, which are echoed and expanded upon in Zero Day Threat, resonated with New York’s finest bean counters. Thanks goes out to all our tech security contacts who have so graciously helped us with guidance and expertise. We couldn’t have done it without you.
USA Today book reviewer calls ZDT “daring”
April 13, 2008
Steve Weinberg’s spot-on book review of Zero Day Threat was published today in USA Today. Weinberg absolutely understands the clarion call in ZDT. He concludes: “The awareness resulting from Zero Day Threat might make a difference.” That’s precisely why we did this book. Thanks, Steve! Weinberg has a new investigative book just out recounting the rise of the Standard Oil monopoly: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller.
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Zero Day Threat, the screen version
April 11, 2008
Honolulu Star-Bulletin columnist Katherine Nichols gets our vote for news scoop of the day. Nichols is the first to report on our signing with Hollywood-based producers Richard Weiner and Jeff Luini, to try to get Zero Day Threat made into a movie. We have great trust and confidence in Richard, a former USA TODAY sports reporter and a writer and consultant for Oliver Stone’s pro-football drama, Any Given Sunday, and Jeff, who’s producing …More
Firefox 3 outpacing IE8 in malware defense
April 9, 2008
My story today on other security tools home PC users can avail themselves of highlights the malware detector in book signing event at RSA. Firefox 3. Mozilla security chief Window Snyder was among the 200 or so guests who showed up at our Snyder engaged White Hat Security co-founder Jeremiah Grossman in a conversation about the comparative efficacy of signature-based vs. behavior-based detection.
Firefox 3 won’t be a cure all. But it will be another layer of …More
Car maker Tata going for security gold
April 9, 2008
More from the RSA Conference Floor:
TATA, the giant Indian conglomerate, probably best known for it $2,500 nanocar, is expanding its tech security consulting services. Brian Cummings , North American chief of Tata Consultancy Services, told me TCS has grown from a $400,000-per-year practice in 2002 to an estimated $18 million in 2008. He expects that will double in 2009. “The market is certainly there.â€
Go ahead–ask if the system is safe
April 9, 2008
More from the RSA Conference Floor:
Payment Card Industry Standards Council general manager Bob Russo told me the Hannaford Brothers grocery store chain was compliant with the Payment Card Industry Digital Security Standards, or PCI-DSS, in February 2008. But Russo maintains he doesn’t know if that was true when hackers a few weeks later stole 4.5 million customer records from 300 stores. PCI-DSS assessments are done annually, he said. Examiners will try to determine …More