Many technical news nets were buzzing with the comment made by Cicso’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) John Stewart at a computer security conference in Australia a few days ago. Apparently Mr. Stewart made the following statement:

“If patching and antivirus is where I spend my money, and I’m still getting infected and I still have to clean up computers and I still need to reload them and still have to recover the user’s data and I still have to reinstall it, the entire cost equation of that is a waste. It’s completely wasted money.”

This statement garnered a lot of attention because the press, always ones to report with as little bias as possible (sarcasm intended), shortened the quote to the following headline: “‘Antivirus is completely wasted money’: Cisco CSO” (Click here to see one such article with a headline of this type).

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A rather interesting story appeared on Yahoo News regarding scam artists going after corporate executives (Click here for the original story).

It seems that the perpetrators managed to get their hands on the email addresses of thousands of top executives. They then fabricated subpoenas as online documents, after which they then mailed links to these documents to the executives, posing as the U.S. Federal Court in San Diego, California. A link was provided in the email so that the “big boys and girls” could link to the subpoena.

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