Having done a general sweep of ghosts last week, I decided to get a little more specific this week and search for headless ghosts. Headlessness is something that is quite common amongst ghosts and one wonders why. There is a mass of “headless ghost” links on the web, even when you discount those that refer [...]

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The recent acquisition of SecureWave by PatchLink, was not so much an acquisition as a merger, with PatchLink being the senior partner. The merged company is called Lumension Security. With 3400 customers Patchlink had about twice the customer base and it also had about twice the staff. The merger probably sent a shock wave or [...]

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Bored with conspiracy groups—I’ll bet you are too, by now—I surfed off in a different direction, in search of ghosts. I could probably surf the net for months on this particular topic. If you Google “ghosts” you get 17,900,000 hits—a good few less than the 24,400,000 hits for aliens, but still a substantial number. There [...]

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Stone beats scissors, scissors beat paper, and VHS beats Betamax. Those are the rules of the game that is played by consumer electronics companies everywhere. In a recent comment on Apple, I suggested that Apple is a consumer electronics company and doesn’t care much for open standards. It’s true and neither do Sony and Toshiba. [...]

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Here they all are. Read it and weep:
1. The Black Hats form a well integrated community that shares knowledge effectively.
Should you, after months of research and effort, create an exploit that allows you to hack Windows or any other frequently used software product, you can auction the exploit on the Internet in a well organized [...]

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