HBO will soon make many of their shows and movies available on the Internet[reuters.com] for no additional charge, similar to what many other channel are already doing. In related moves, Wal-Mart recently suspended Internet movie rentals and Apple added movie rentals to its iTunes store.

While people are undoubtedly interested in accessing this type of content on-demand over the Internet, I wonder whether Wal-Mart’s move indicates an unwillingness in consumers to pay for such services. It will be interesting to see whether Apple has better success with their movie rentals.

Dominic Schulte

Dominic Schulte currently serves as the Managing Director of Security Services & Consulting at TRUE, where he is responsible for the execution of a wide range of security and regulatory compliance services. Previously, Dominic worked with the National Security Agency (NSA) as a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst in the National Security Incident and Response Center (NSIRC). He holds CISSP, QSA and CNSS 4011-4015 certifications.

For those who do not follow Apple news, today was the annual Apple keynote by Steve Jobs. These keynotes are highly anticipated as Jobs usually surprise announces the new Apple products: iPod, iPhone, MacBooks, etc. Since most people cannot go to the keynote, websites like Engadget[engadget.com] provide a live running blog of the event. Even knowing that they would have a abnormally large number of visitors to their site, Engadget was still taken down[engadget.com]. The massive amount of people visting their site caused a denial of service at 2 AOL data centers (AOL hosts Engadget). This goes to show that even with advanced planning, unintended or non-malicious denial of service is still a threat.

Michael Oglesby

The Director of Tactical Security Services at TRUE, Michael specializes in security testing initiatives with vast network and application security assessment experience. He oversees a team of analysts in conducting SAST- and DAST-based services. Certifications include CISSP, CSSLP, QSA and CNSS 4011-4015. He is also the Verizon 2010 Data Breach Investigation Report Cover Challenge Winner and second place finisher in the 2011 competition.

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