Best of the blogs: The cost of an Epson scanner has been incorrectly listed in a sponsored Google ad long enough that one reader is asking when what likely began as a simple error actually becomes false advertising. It’s not that Epson cannot alter it, either. “It looks like Epson might be changing the ad copy regularly,” Ed Foster reports in Epson discount lives on in Google ad. Trying to reach Google on this matter was like, well, trying to reach Google on just about any matter: cold, form-based and to no avail. “I guess Google can’t be bothered,” the reader explained. Most telling, perhaps, is that an Epson rep said you can’t trust what you see on the Internet, particularly if it’s from Epson. Security: Breaking in through the front door is less common now than ever. More likely is that an unwitting user launches a worm or bot that leads to the compromise. “Spam a hundred malicious e-mails to an entity’s employees and you’re almost guaranteed to get a client-side execution,” Roger Grimes explains. Vulnerabilities inside out. “Why rob a bank with a gun when you’re only going to get a few thousand dollars at most, along with an exploding dye pack and a guaranteed 5-to-25 years in prison? Instead, buy a spamming bot for a few hundred dollars, spend a few hours customizing your attack, and steal tens of thousands to millions. Your risk of getting caught is almost nil.” Storage: The Storage Networking World conference highlighted what Mario Apicella calls “harbingers of advances to come,” such as SAS and FCoE, as in Fibre Channel over Ethernet. “Sure, point-to-point connections and 6Gbps transfer rates make SAS compelling, but it’s the protocol’s flexibility that makes it a manufacturer’s dream come true,” Apicella explains in Small SNW plays could make big waves. And a new acronym cropped up, too: CNA, converged network adapters. “Although you can’t buy CNA or FCoE products quite yet, the quick pace of the past few months suggests it won’t be long before you’ll be explaining to your CEO how investing in CNAs will save the company a bunch of money down the road.” Technology Industry