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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. Before we freak out by saboosh · · Score: 5, Informative

    "A careful review of previous ventures launched by the company’s founders reveals a pattern of failed businesses, reverse mergers, shell companies and product promises that missed the mark by miles." http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...

  2. Company that nobody has every heard of goes under by CajunArson · · Score: 4, Funny

    To quote the sage words of Peter Griffin: "Oh. My. God. Who. the Hell. Cares."

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  3. 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...

  4. 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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  5. LOL ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A careful review of previous ventures launched by the company's founders reveals a pattern of failed businesses, reverse mergers, shell companies and product promises that missed the mark by miles.

    So, we can't say this was likely vaporware put up by rip off artists with a long history of failed companies making dubious claims ... but it would appear this is the case.

    TFA pretty much reads like these guys are likely shady players with a long history of this:

    "These shell companies formed by [the company's founders] bilked investors," Landesman said. "Had anyone gone and investigated any of these partnerships they were espousing as being the next big thing, they would have realized this was all smoke and mirrors."

    Someone sounds like they're fairly unambiguously calling these guys con artists.

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