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Diary of an acquisition part1

Ok I know many of us experienced this kind of trip once in a lifetime. I have travelled acquisition a lot of times, when mondadori informatica was absorbed  by the mother comany mondadori, when brightmail become part of symantec, when symantec acquired veritas software and moved all european management to veritas, and at the end when cisco systems acquired Ironport. All acquisitions means change and most of the changes are not well accepted, but I’m a long traveller on the seas of IT company and I’m quite used to changes so what has meant to me an acquisition? The last…

Is Big C missing the point on security?

Big company are really suited for security? This is what comes to my mind when we see what Cisco, HP and Co. do when we talk about security. Are they really able to focus on the innovation and development that security require? I  can talk about what I know so i will express my mixed feeling about Cisco and Security. For long times Cisco has not been perceived as a big player in the security space, beside the fact PIXASA is the most sold firewall in the world. But honestly we should not only consider the magnitude of the numbers but also why and how companies buy a product. Alas…

Anonymous vs BART (Simpson?) part2

Still I read a lot on Anonymous hacking group, even that they threaten children or declare war against UK for expenditure cuts, also Strauss khan seems to be threatened by Anonymous. Reading news seems that they’re an unstoppable force of nature… I left my thoughts last time on why internet and why now, and why  they’re so (in)famous. So about the first point: why internet?  If they’re a unstructured movement is natural that they choose, grow and move onto the media that makes communication most easier. The relatively growing of importance of social media, messenger and other communication systems made very easy recruitment and association on the met. We…

Spear Phishing: can it fool me?

Image via Wikipedia Recent articles in the news remind me that anyone can be fooled by a good scam. the problem is always the trust we gave to the communication we received. is not just a financial problem (you remember the Madoff scam?) but a problem that can hit anyone, even expert guys can fall.The most recent was the hack occurs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but it is just the last of an infinite series. Also the RSA securID breach  was prepared with spear phishing. What is spear phishing? Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets…

SECURITY: Web Browsing infection and protection basics

As the 2010 ended we learned that it was the most prolific years in terms of malware, new malware and botnets. And also we found out that internet browsing has been the most used vehicle to spread infection and attack.Actually seems not to be an astonishing news, ou contraire, but it is interesting to notice that the focus has shifted from OS related threats to application and browsing vulnerability. this allowed malware to attack new surfaces, virtually any operating systems with internet browsing capabilities is subject and can be target of an attack or an infection: pc, smarthphone, tablet, consoles…

An Amazing New World Wide Green Awareness Campaign

The Puchi Herald and The World Wide Wasting Time Foundation proudly present a new worldwide campaign to leverage a green environmental awareness to all internet users. After the Well known campaign “Think before you Print” we realized that the main reason people print emails is just that emails are written. No matter how you tell people to not print, there will always be the moron that needs to print everything just because…. So here the idea: how we save the environment and time? Most of the emails you send around are useless, dangerous, or, even worse, boring. “Think before you…

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