Brushfire in George... smoke in Tampa?

This is truly remarkable.  We’re in the Tampa Bay area, about 250 miles from Waycross, GA.

Now, there’s a huge fire up in Waycross.  And through an odd quirk in the wind patterns, we’re getting the smoke.  I just stepped outside and it was pretty rough — just a carpet of smoke throughout the area.  The picture below doesn’t do the situation justice, but here’s an example:



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Insuring data breaches

Tech//404, a new venture by insurance company Darwin, sells insurance for losses due to technology and security failures.  And they now publish a “Data Loss Archive”, a sort of repository of horrible acts of corporate data theft (it has potential, but should it only has a number of recent events and really should have an RSS feed). 

They also have a “Data Loss Calculator”, a rather grim calculator that lays out the cost of data breaches  — but it has zippy sounds (insurance company folks are such wild and crazy people.)




The real costs of data breaches — ruined credit, stolen identify, etc. — are far harder to calculate. 

Alex Eckelberry

Fortune 500 companies that spam

Well, they’re not spamming per se, but they have infected systems that are spambots.  And Rick Wesson’s Support Intelligence is tracking them. 

Rick has a blog worth reading.  Link here via Gadi.

Alex Eckelberry