[Michael]

It has been a busy past couple of weeks, and very few blogging posts in between.

I spent a lot of time working on fixing stuff; did about 200 installs of Linux and Windows OS combined and it got to me.

I got to work on the 'MalwareDiariesList' which I now call 'clearing house'. It is almost done, well that is the front end... the back end is a continuous piece of work ;-)



For the back end, I am writing scripts at the moment, to automate much of the work. So far, we add stuff manually, but I plan on having this thing run by itself 24/7.

In my spare time I checked the other guys' blogs... Hey, I heard about Mikko Hypponen being kicked out of Twitter for a while. This is silly, does not everybody out there know about Mikko? lol
One thing that made me shake my head was the message he got back from Twitter after the incident:



Is this from a teenager with a lot of acne on his face? Yo man! Clearly, a lack of professionalism.

All in all, things are not that bad for Mikko though. Before the incident: 3,200 followers



After: 4,354 followers



Mikko Hypponen is one of the veterans in the security industry, very well respected and appreciated. I met him twice (VB 2008, VB 2009); he is a nice guy.

Also heard from our friend Paperghost who stepped foot in Canada for the first time. Paperghost was presenting at SecTor about video games consoles security. The poor guy got attacked badly by forum trolls and what not. There are always people whining out there... sometimes you can ignore them, sometimes you got to use humor. Keep it up Paperghost, I like your work and your unique style. Still hope to meet with you someday... Toronto was close but not close enough from the West coast!

Jerome Segura