This week I went to London to speak at the Anti-Phishing Working Group meeting. I can’t tell you who else presented or what they said, but I can say I spoke about Visualization for Data Sharing, or,  Seeing the Undead. Botnets, that is: zombie PCs, especially as used for phishing. If we can visualize them, we can see patterns that can help catch the perpetrators.

In the travel section of the Guardian, on the same page as a story about Fiji, was a writeup about Austin. It seems the Guardian sends a correspondant to Austin every year for the SXSW conference, and he thihnks Austin is the kind of place that Britain wants to be. I never knew I lived in such an exotic locale. When I explained about the bats the expressions people got convinced me that maybe I do. But it seems the problems of the Internet are the same everywhere.

-jsq