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Larry Seltzer |
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Larry Seltzer has been writing software for and English about computers ever since—much to his own amazement—he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.
He was one of the authors of NPL and NPL-R, fourth-generation languages for microcomputers by the now-defunct DeskTop Software Corporation. (Larry is sad to find absolutely no hits on any of these +products on Google.) His work at Desktop Software included programming the UCSD p-System, a virtual machine-based operating system with portable binaries that pre-dated Java by more than 10 years.
For several years, he wrote corporate software for Mathematica Policy Research (they're still in business!) and Chase Econometrics (not so lucky) before being forcibly thrown into the consulting market. He bummed around the Philadelphia consulting and contract-programming scenes for a year or two before taking a job at NSTL (National Software Testing Labs) developing product tests and managing contract testing for the computer industry, governments and publication.
In 1991 Larry moved to Massachusetts to become Technical Director of PC Week Labs (now eWeek Labs). He moved within Ziff Davis to New York in 1994 to run testing at Windows Sources. In 1995, he became Technical Director for Internet product testing at PC Magazine and stayed there till 1998.
Since then, he has been writing for numerous other publications, including Fortune Small Business, Windows 2000 Magazine (now Windows and .NET Magazine), ZDNet and Sam Whitmore's Media Survey.
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2009-04-30 Targeted Malware Attacks on the Rise Says F-Secure
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2009-04-29 Anti-virus Moves to the Cloud
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2009-04-29 Adobe Moves to Fix Reported Vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader
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2009-04-29 Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2 Released to Manufacturing
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2009-04-29 Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Contains Major Improvements
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2009-04-27 Adobe Investigating New Vulnerabilities in Reader
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2009-04-27 Google Joins Mozilla, Blames IE for Chrome Bug
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2009-04-27 Windows 7's XP Mode and Security
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2009-04-24 Congress Comes to 'Help' Run the Internet
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2009-04-23 FBI Spyware Could Look Like Your Average Trojan
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2009-04-23 Windows 7 Security Enhancements Summed Up
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2009-04-22 Report Claims DNS Cache Poisoning Attack Against Brazilian Bank and ISP
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2009-04-21 Adware Firm Zango Shuts Doors
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2009-04-21 VeriSign VIP 2-Factor Network Opens to Mobile Devices
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2009-04-21 Software Pirates Getting Bolder Too, Says Microsoft Study
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2009-04-20 Social Networks Can Be a Social Disease for Your Business
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2009-04-20 Twitter and Celebrities Hit by More Mikeyy Worms
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2009-04-18 Pirate Bay: Lock 'Em Up
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2009-04-17 Malware Using SMS as a Tool and a Lure
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2009-04-16 Mac Vulnerability to Botnets Proven in Real-World Case
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2009-04-14 What Are Microsoft's Intentions Vis-a-Vis the Old Office File Formats?
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2009-04-10 What Will the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Do to Your Job and Business?
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2009-04-09 Adobe Reader Alternatives Are Usable but Not Especially Compelling
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2009-04-09 How Adobe Reader Stacks Up to Alternatives
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2009-04-06 Windows XP and Office 2003 Enter a New Phase of Support
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2009-04-02 The Proposed Federalization of the Computer Security Field
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2009-03-31 The Real World of Malware: News from the Front
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2009-03-30 Will the World End on Wednesday?
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2009-03-24 The First Linux Botnet
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2009-03-22 Malware Is Getting Formidable, but So Are Your Defenses
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2009-03-18 The Spammers Have Won, but We'll Survive
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2009-03-14 The British Botnet Corporation
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2009-03-10 What Kind of Cyber-security Czar Do We Want?
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2009-03-07 It May Be Time to Abandon Adobe
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2009-03-03 10 Years With Melissa, the Worm that Changed the World
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2009-02-27 Vista Took One for the Team
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2009-02-25 Vulnerability Information Wants to Be Free
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2009-02-20 Exposing the Myth of Passport Card Security
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2009-02-17 Should Microsoft Take You out of the Patching Question?
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2009-02-13 In the Obama Era, Routing Has to Change, Too
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2009-02-10 Enough with the Browser Toolbars Already
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2009-02-08 A Plan to Stop Fast Flux Networks Begins to Form
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2009-02-03 Both Sides on the Win7 UAC Problem
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2009-01-31 How Do They Make All That Malware?
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2009-01-27 Next Problem Up: Reverse User Name Hijackings
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2009-01-22 Obama Team Finds Secure Networks Aren't Fun
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2009-01-20 Whois Abuse Still Out of Control
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2009-01-15 Weak Passwords Make for Weak Networks
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2009-01-13 Deceptive Ads on Yahoo Right Media
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2009-01-10 Euro-Police Hacking Goes Out of Control
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2009-01-06 Google Named No. 3 Spam Provider
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2009-01-02 SSL Crack Shows You Must Advance Your Security
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2008-12-26 Security in 2009
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2008-12-24 SSL Certificate Vendor Sells Mozilla.com Cert to Some Guy
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2008-12-21 Anonymity Is a Problem and an American Tradition
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2008-12-18 Norton Returns: Malware and Anti-Malware on the Mac
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2008-12-16 Google Sandboxing Tries to Make Browsing Safer
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2008-12-13 Microsoft Gets More Detailed About IE Vulnerability and Workarounds
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2008-12-09 5 Years After CAN-SPAM
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2008-12-08 Spammers Sidestep SMTP
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2008-12-02 Wireless Security: A Partial Glossary of Wireless Security Terms
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2008-12-01 It's Time to Sign the Root Zone Already
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2008-11-23 Internet Freedom and Security Are Necessarily at Odds
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2008-11-18 Flash! Firefox No Longer an Automatic Defense Against Browser Drive-Bys
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2008-11-14 Standards Come to Anti-malware Testing
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2008-11-11 Can We Secure Government Networks? Yes, We Can, Theoretically
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2008-11-07 Malware Detection Goes Hybrid
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2008-11-04 Can the Air Force Change the Internet Rules of Engagement?
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2008-11-03 Vulnerabilities Fade from the Threat Foreground
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2008-10-29 The Global Network Initiative Balances Freedoms and Business Needs
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2008-10-27 Are We Ready for the Windows Server Worm?
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2008-10-21 Google Can't Search Its Own Documents
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2008-10-20 Whitelisting Getting Ready for the Big Leagues
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2008-10-14 What Makes a Critical Vulnerability Critical?
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2008-10-11 The Risks In Wildcard Certificates
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