-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The School of Hacking ,----[ Quote ] | If college students can beat the best antivirus programs, why do people spend | nearly $5 billion a year on them? `---- http://www.newsweek.com/id/158730 Snake oil. Recent: Anti-virus program carves up Windows ,----[ Quote ] | Following an update on 4 September of the pattern files for
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Next-generation Computer Antivirus System Developed ,----[ Quote ] | Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past | thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection | developed at the University of Michigan. `---- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080806152434.htm
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh Lord, make the banks pay for cybercrime ,----[ Quote ] | One of the more controversial recommendations being that there should be | legislation "to establish the principle that banks be held responsible for | losses incurred by electronic fraud." `---- http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19319/1054/ That would mean that /everyone/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Every anti-virus scanner on the market compromised by critical vulnerabilities ,----[ Quote ] | More than 800 vulnerabilities have been uncovered within anti-virus products, | and every virus scanner currently on the market has at least one highly | critical vulnerability. That is the controversial claim of one security | vendor which concludes
Trend Micro's CEO says 'AV industry sucks' ,----[ Quote ] | Trend Micro’s CEO threw down the gauntlet to her competitors last week, | proclaiming that hackers are ahead of the game and that the anti-virus | industry “sucks”. | | [...] | | Changes in the malware landscape have led to the creation of multiple | variants of different malware strains and targeted attacks. Traditional
