Simon Sez

I've heard a few instances of the "why do we need blogs when we have the forums" questions popping up so far and figured I'd try to answer the question in one place (for posterity).

What forums and blogs have in common:

You can post messages/threads in them and people can respond to them.

That's really about it.

Forums tend to be very tightly structured (topics are fixed, you can post threads, but you can't create new forums, etc.). They are designed for comment-driven ...

The Storm worm (having been consistently pounding the Intertubes for the past three months) has security researchers worried at the sheer power that it has amassed.

With estimates placing the size of the botnet on the order of 50 million computers, it is vastly eclipsing the power of the world's top supercomputers.

The owner of the botnet has been seen experimenting from time to time -- resulting in massive surges in spam and Internet activity from what is rapidly becoming ...

I finally managed to finish the initial development of the intensive "hacker training" course I've been tasked with running. All 750(ish) PowerPoint slides of it.

Now for the review, revisions, expansion (where needed), and development of the numerous labs and the required VMWare network that will drive much of the course.

The good news is that the training course should be a lucrative line for our company (Halock Security Labs) and it looks like we're going to get ourselves ...

A friend and cow-orker of mine asked me for some help this weekend -- it seems that one of his neighbor's kids created/runs Kids Caring 4 Kids.

The site has been hosted on her father's company's server, but due to a recent appearance on Oprah (with Bill Clinton), they are expecting the site to bring in far more traffic than the server can maintain.

Oprah's folks have stepped in and moved the site (and upgraded the look) -- they've apparently dealt with this situation before ...

If you're reading this, then you are likely aware that the new HERO Games blogs have gone live.

There's still more functionality to come on these (the current blogs are a new 1.0 release), mainly in the area of social networking.

Nothing earth-shattering, perhaps, but hopefully nice to have