Since they've broke the record of 11.4 billion in 2016, which beat the record of 11.1 billion in 2015, I think they are doing OK, even not BETTER because of piracy.
Tons of people were realtime tweeting about the #GoldCup last night, even Celebs that don't usually talk about soccer. Prolly cuz it was in LA. Too bad US couldn't hold 2-0 lead, letting 4 goals in a row is embarrassing.
I've posted all the relevent information about this virus since 4pm on Tuesday, which beat out most of the major news outlets, except cnet. I've keep the info upto date with the list of virus vendors and latest virus news in the online media, and manual removal and automatic removal tools.
I would like to thank messagelabs, as they are always the first to notify about major virus outbreaks. Sophos is a close second and is good about notifying about everyday viruses. Mcafee's alerts are good, but usually alittle late, they only notify once it hits the news media. Symantec wants you to pay an outragous price for their virus alerts, and I doubt they give you only earlier warning than messagelabs or sophos which provide the service for FREE. Symantec is becoming the Microsoft of Virus vendors, they're trying to spread out everywhere now in the security field, buying up companies left and right. Their quality of product is going down because they don't use a google.com like motto "do one thing and do it well" which they use todo. But their automated virus removal tools are still pretty good. IMHO
If you would like to sign up to messagelabs's great early warning notification service go here.
If you want Sophos excellent everyday notification about all virus's go here.
If you would like to get McAfee's avertlabs notifications, go here.
or you can just checkout my virus posts on the security-forum.com, but I only post the major outbreaks because there are TOO MANY viruses out there to post every single one.;)
Taking a network security class, could help, but which classes are really worth the money and might there be enough information on the web to make such a choice, unnecessary?
I believe there is enough information on the web, that is why I started the project Information Security Bible for beginners coming into the field that want to read the necessary documentation to get the basic grasp on all the wide varitity subjects under information security, and for the pros to keep on the the latest info. All the documentation is online and free, not everyone has the money to pay for those expensive books and fancy classes but alot of people have the thirst to learn about it and want to have more indepth knowledge of certain subject matters in the infosec area.
I'm also a moderator over at security-forums and we get alot of newbies trying to learn everything overnight! They don't want to take the time and effort to read, read, and read some more, they don't realize that it has taken most of us 10+ years to know everything we know, and still have to learn new things everyday.
I do also believe you should have a test lab enviroment to test and hone your skills. Most security professionals have test labs to test new exploits or try new security prevention technqiues, because in infosec its always cutting edge area which you have to make an everyday effort to keep up with or you'll fall behind quickly.
Read before you do, so when you do, you know what you are doing.
I found an int erview with Michael Connelly which is one of the creators, writers, and consulting producers of Level9. In the interview, he explains why he decided to write a TV show, because he is known as a novel writer. There are also some cool links on the bottom of the page, which include a mailing list, so you can get the lastest news about Level9
This whole NSAKEY thing kinda reminds me of a StarTrek DeepSpace 9 episode, where they found out that odo was infected with a virus and this happened when he had a federation health checkup. So they sent a message to federation HQ and told them they had the cure for odo's infection, so it would lure a guy from Section31(the federation's NSA). It worked and some guy named "Sloan" shows up looking for it, but then finds out it was a fake message. He tried to say it was done in the best interest of the federation, because they wanted odo to link up with the founders(leaders of the dominoin) so it would kill them all. Which is not related to putting a backdoor in a computer OS, but does show how governments try to excuse their own actions by sayings "It WAS in the best interest of national security". So I am looking forward to how MS/NSA is gonna spin things, their PR departments must be going CRAZY right about now!! NSA will probably put all the blame on Microsoft or people in Microsoft will be having some mysteries accidents!
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Since they've broke the record of 11.4 billion in 2016, which beat the record of 11.1 billion in 2015, I think they are doing OK, even not BETTER because of piracy.
Tons of people were realtime tweeting about the #GoldCup last night, even Celebs that don't usually talk about soccer. Prolly cuz it was in LA. Too bad US couldn't hold 2-0 lead, letting 4 goals in a row is embarrassing.
I've posted all the relevent information about this virus since 4pm on Tuesday, which beat out most of the major news outlets, except cnet. I've keep the info upto date with the list of virus vendors and latest virus news in the online media, and manual removal and automatic removal tools.
;)
I would like to thank messagelabs, as they are always the first to notify about major virus outbreaks. Sophos is a close second and is good about notifying about everyday viruses. Mcafee's alerts are good, but usually alittle late, they only notify once it hits the news media. Symantec wants you to pay an outragous price for their virus alerts, and I doubt they give you only earlier warning than messagelabs or sophos which provide the service for FREE. Symantec is becoming the Microsoft of Virus vendors, they're trying to spread out everywhere now in the security field, buying up companies left and right. Their quality of product is going down because they don't use a google.com like motto "do one thing and do it well" which they use todo. But their automated virus removal tools are still pretty good. IMHO
If you would like to sign up to messagelabs's great early warning notification service go here.
If you want Sophos excellent everyday notification about all virus's go here.
If you would like to get McAfee's avertlabs notifications, go here.
or you can just checkout my virus posts on the security-forum.com, but I only post the major outbreaks because there are TOO MANY viruses out there to post every single one.
I'm also a moderator over at security-forums and we get alot of newbies trying to learn everything overnight! They don't want to take the time and effort to read, read, and read some more, they don't realize that it has taken most of us 10+ years to know everything we know, and still have to learn new things everyday.
I do also believe you should have a test lab enviroment to test and hone your skills. Most security professionals have test labs to test new exploits or try new security prevention technqiues, because in infosec its always cutting edge area which you have to make an everyday effort to keep up with or you'll fall behind quickly.
Read before you do, so when you do, you know what you are doing.
I found an int erview with Michael Connelly which is one of the creators, writers, and consulting producers of Level9. In the interview, he explains why he decided to write a TV show, because he is known as a novel writer. There are also some cool links on the bottom of the page, which include a mailing list, so you can get the lastest news about Level9
This whole NSAKEY thing kinda reminds me of a StarTrek DeepSpace 9 episode, where they found out that odo was infected with a virus and this happened when he had a federation health checkup. So they sent a message to federation HQ and told them they had the cure for odo's infection, so it would lure a guy from Section31(the federation's NSA). It worked and some guy named "Sloan" shows up looking for it, but then finds out it was a fake message. He tried to say it was done in the best interest of the federation, because they wanted odo to link up with the founders(leaders of the dominoin) so it would kill them all. Which is not related to putting a backdoor in a computer OS, but does show how governments try to excuse their own actions by sayings "It WAS in the best interest of national security". So I am looking forward to how MS/NSA is gonna spin things, their PR departments must be going CRAZY right about now!! NSA will probably put all the blame on Microsoft or people in Microsoft will be having some mysteries accidents!