Archive for April, 2009

When Corporate Blogs go Bad

The many companies who have jumped onto the blogging bandwagon there are the good the bad and the ugly, making news at the top of their agenda but sometimes, over-eagerness takes hold and everything gets all…. messy! Like the previous events that placed Symantec in the hot seat when their people released a test file that was supposed to test the anti-virus software their clients paid for. It turned out into a marketing manager for the guy who released the update forgot to attach a valid security certificate and was deemed as malware sending their paniked customers to flood their support lines and site. Read more »

Web Security to the Extreme – The Great Green Wall of China

Countries have been screening the internet and even all forms of media for a long time, but mostly for those countries that have maintained either monarchical or communist rule. Countries in the Middle East and in Asia have long enforced internet filtering but with brushes between the government and Google in the recent months regarding nude pictures getting through their image search facility, China has decided to take matters into it’s own hands. In what is being called as the Green Wall of China, it is a home-made screening program that takes matters into it’s own hand, blocking anything that the government deems a s disruptive or counter’s the ideals of the state. Read more »