Category: Dossiers

Jun 15 2009

Kaspersky Labs ignores bug hunter, fails to fix security flaw

Here’s a trick ques­tion for you. Micro­soft offers an RSS feed for secu­rity vul­ner­a­bili­ties in their own pro­ducts. Can you name one anti­virus ven­dor that offers an RSS feed for secu­rity vul­ner­a­bili­ties in their own products?

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May 29 2009

Oops! McAfee expert slanders Armadillo, Themida

Igor Muttik’s column went missing on McAfee’s “Avert Labs Blog” a few hours after he posted it. We can learn an easy lesson by watching Muttik learn a hard lesson…

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Feb 08 2009

Kaspersky website gets hacked (again)

Say what? “Zone-h archives show 36 web­site deface­ments of inter­national Kaspersky sites since 2000…”

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Jan 28 2009

Why Symantec’s CEO shouldn’t be Obama’s Commerce Secretary

For at least two years, CEO John Thompson’s firm secretly turned over computer viruses to China’s oppressive government — and he kept both Clinton and Bush in the dark about it. News reports now say President Obama wants to nominate him for Commerce Secretary. So — what will “Secretary Thompson” keep secret from Obama?

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Jan 24 2009

What’s missing in this virus survey?

Sophos took a survey to see who their customers are blaming for the spread of the Downadup worm. Sadly, their survey didn’t let anyone point a finger at “antivirus software, for failing to do its job…”

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