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What Happened To Norse Corp.? Threat Intelligence Vendor Disappears (csoonline.com)

Posted by timothy on from the black-sails-in-the-sunset dept.

itwbennett writes: Over the weekend, Brian Krebs reported that Sam Glines, CEO of threat intelligence vendor Norse Corp., was asked to step down by the board of directors and employees were told that they could report to work on Monday, but that there was no guarantee they'd be paid for their work. 'Less than a day after Krebs published his article, Norse Corp.'s website was offline, and attempts to email the company failed,' writes CSO's Steve Ragan. 'The ever-popular Norse attack map was online for some of the weekend, but that too had gone dark by Sunday evening.' In the aftermath of the company's disappearance, the topic of flawed data and assumptions once again resurfaced in a blog post written by ICS expert, Robert M. Lee.

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  1. Response by a Norse Programmer and Brian Krebs by Kobun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is an interesting exchange in the comments to Brian's article, between him and a former employee of Norse: http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...

    The ex-employee has written a blog post here (might be a liiiiiitle one-sided): http://pandawhale.com/post/703...

    1. Re:Response by a Norse Programmer and Brian Krebs by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yes, but I find his comments rather... full of hubris....

      I quote from his post:

      "But I stand behind everything we built and everything we accomplished. No one has the data collection capability that we built. No one has the correlative, actuarial, data analysis capability that we built. And no one is able to do so, not just in real-time, but live, not even the 3 letter agencies."

      First, how can he possibly know what the 3 letter agencies can and cannot do?

      Second, if they couldn't before, I'd be shocked if they can't now, after taking Norse's code.

  2. Re:Company that nobody has every heard of goes und by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    So you're not in the security field. Thanks for letting us know your opinion doesn't matter.

  3. Re:Company that nobody has every heard of goes und by bigdady92 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You've never seen the graphs, the charts,the data that comes from this site. It's astounding to watch, I used to have a TV showing all the traffic coming from various countries and it was like watching Thermonuclear Warfare in action.

    You've probably never heard of that game from a movie you've never watched either. We get it.

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    Wheel of Time: Book by Book and Sumview (summary review) Bigdady92 style: http://bigdady92.blogspot.com/
  4. Note to the new Slashdot owners by b1ng0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No more itwbennet! All his posts link to csoonline.com or cio.com. Obviously a paid schill. And his posts are not worth the bits they are printed with. Kick him to the curb!