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MPack interview chat sessions posted

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

A Russian site has somehow gotten the transcript of my interview with the Dream Coders Team, the developers of MPack, and posted them. In fact, they scooped my own posting at SecurityFocus, posting apparently the day of the first interview I had on June 20 (June 21, Russian time) and then updating the following day. [...]

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Tags: Blog · Journalism · Security · Viruses and worms

Lifelock co-founder’s questionable past

June 7th, 2007 · No Comments

The Phoenix New Times has a good investigative piece on one of the co-founders of identity-protection firm Lifelock, Robert Maynard, Jr., who apparently has had a checkered past.

According to the piece, Maynard has filed for bankruptcy; he had to close down his previous company, a credit-repair service, after the federal government banned him from the [...]

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Tags: Blog · Consumer Tech · Journalism · Privacy

Nice article on the Linkin Park hacks

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Wired Magazine has a nice feature article on the Linkin Park cyberstalking incident, including extensive interviews with the private investigator involved and with the Linkin Park lead singer Chester Charlie Bennington and his wife.

The case hit the press last November, when investigators arrested a 29-year-old employee of Sandia National Labs for allegedly committing the crimes.

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Tags: Blog · Cybercrime · Journalism · Security

Public figures, the SCO trial and Pamela Jones

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

SCO’s in the news again: The would-be licensor of Linux is apparently subpoenaing Pamela Jones of Groklaw to reveal who she is. Coincidentally, Jones said she is taking a break from blogging due to health reasons on Saturday, yet someone else is still maintaining Groklaw posts. SCO contention is that Groklaw is a front for [...]

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Tags: Blog · Journalism · Legal · Open Source