This Cupid I don't need

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:45:00 +0000

With this weeks festive Valentine's Day celebration upon us, the social engineers are back at work. These folks come up with new and innovative ways to get you to open email and then own your machine. The payload is usually the eponymous Storm worm, so be on your guard. You can get more details about what the FBI thinks is in store for the rest of this week.

Don't fall for it. By using the tactics discussed in Security Mike's Guide you are reasonably protected, but there is nothing that substitutes for good old common sense.

I'm sure you have plenty of secret admirers, hopefully they'll send you flowers. Email solicitations to click on links, you don't need. If it seems too good to be true, it is. If it's a love note from someone that doesn't love you, don't open it.

The best way to protect yourself online is constant vigilance. Expect the worst from folks on the Internet, they rarely let you down.

Cupid image originally uploaded by Shoeless Joe/64.

Goldman Sachs Downgrades TIBCO (TIBX) to Sell

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:15:39 +0000

I was looking at some of my favorite CEP companies this morning and noticed that Goldman Sachs analyst Derek Bingham just downgraded vendor TIBCO Software (TIBX) to Sell.

According to Bingham, here,

… customers will move away from buying more expensive “best-of-breed” offerings, like Tibco’’s products, and more toward buying less expensive “good enough” substitutes that are bundled with broader solutions from the likes of IBM, Oracle Corp. and SAP AG.

At the time of this post, TIBCO was down around 5 percent in premarket trading.

[SecurityRatty] tag: substitutes

This Cupid I don't need

Goldman Sachs Downgrades TIBCO (TIBX) to Sell