Last week, I read Ed Falk’s blog post on The Spam Diaries where he commented on a possible solution to the spam problem.  He himself was commenting on a study done by researchers out of the University of California where they discovered that credit...

You know, over the past few days I’ve been reminded of an episode of South Park.  It’s an episode where Kyle needs help solving a problem and he ends up coming to Cartman.  Cartman sees Kyle and says “Oh, well, well, weeeeeeeeell…”  Kyle...

It has now been a little over two months since Microsoft and some others shut down the Rustock botnet.  Since that time, Rustock has sent us only a trickling of spam and has not resurrected in its previous form.  The question I now ask is whether...

Last year, in response to the rising costs of owning property, I joined the board of my homeowner’s association where I live.  Now instead of being randomly hit with increases in my fees, I get a little bit of notice before everyone else is also...

I recently read a story in the Associated Press about how Osama bin Laden was able to stay off the digital radar for so long.  If he was the leader of a terrorist organization, he had to stay in contact with his underlings.  But if he was staying...

In case you missed it a few days, a story broke that said that Facebook was caught hiring a PR firm to spread stories about Google about how they invade people’s privacy.  From The Daily Beast : For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding...

This is my third post that has nothing to do with cyber security or antimalware.  I enjoy anthropology and want to write about it, and this is one of my only outlets.  I’ll be back to the normal stuff after I finish this series. In my previous...

In my previous post, I explained that the reason that Europeans conquered the rest of the world, and not vice versa, is because they were able to generate food surpluses. With this food surplus, they could support classes of people not dedicated...

This post has nothing to do with cyber security or antispam.  But one of the advantages of having a blog is that I get to write about topics that I find interesting, and I find this particular topic very interesting.  Thus, I am writing about...

2011 is turning into the year of the security breach. We can’t go two weeks without an organization revealing that hackers broke in and stole data.  As if things couldn’t get any worse for Sony, breach twice in a span of less than two weeks, users...

In the past couple of days on Facebook, a couple of my friends have fallen for scams on Facebook – click here to see pictures of bin Laden!  Similarly, a couple of other friends have fallen victim to the scam of finding out who’s tracking you (on...