Comments on: Howard Schmidt appointed US cyber czar

By: Eliot Ness

Eliot Ness — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:23:17 +0000

New cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt is yet another Obama Administration Czar Wreck!

Schmidt is a “Distinguished Fellow” of Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab — whose management is a catastrophe.

CyLab’s problems include the cover-up of identity fraud, securities fraud, hedge fund fraud, and felony theft-by-deception!

If there were Congressional oversight, Schmidt would never have been a serious candidate for the critical job he now has.

http://www.PrintcafeSecuritiesFraud.com

By: vanderaj

vanderaj — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:28:46 +0000

@AbiusX – the theme is chosen to protest Australian government censorship similar to yours in Iran. We are a free country, and our politicians are going to pay for their hubris and misjudgement on this one.

@Matthew – Sure – belts and braces, but making my Mum shoulder the entire blame is not working. She needs to keep her stuff up to date – no argument, but if the software she used was safer, there would be fewer patches, fewer possible attacks, and what attacks were possible, would be less problematic. So we need to make sure ISVs know that they MUST do more than they are doing today. They wont as long as there’s no economic nor legal incentive to do the right thing.

By: Matthew Hackling

Matthew Hackling — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:16:21 +0000

Nice work. I like the last point. However I wouldn’t discount the need for client side security. Web application security weaknesses enable the “hosting for crimeware” (e.g. SQL injection of malicious iframes etc.) but the crimeware often uses client side vulnerabilities in browsers, plugins and 3rd party software to execute and install.

By: AbiusX

AbiusX — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:01:06 +0000

Hi Andrew,
You new blog theme sucks bigtime! please revert to the previous theme!

Nice post btw, I strongly agree, but politics are always a step away from tech.