hanafisumenep 9:45 AM Add Comment anti-virus, EFF, ethics, greg hoglund, hbgary, mcafee Edit AV complicity explained earlier this week i wrote a post about the idea of the AV industry being somehow complicit in the government spying that has been all over ... Read More
hanafisumenep 9:30 AM Add Comment anti-virus, EFF, ethics, hbgary, magic lantern, mcafee, PRISM, spyware Edit what would AV's complicity in government spying look like? as you may well have heard, the EFF and a bunch of security experts have written an open letter to the AV industry asking about any possibl... Read More
hanafisumenep 10:30 AM Add Comment Anti-Malware, anti-malware testing, anti-virus, bias, dan kaminsky, dbir, robert graham, security expert Edit debating AV effectiveness with security experts a rather disheartening conversation took place on twitter over the weekend. as public conversations sometimes do, it grew beyond any capabil... Read More
hanafisumenep 8:41 AM Add Comment anti-virus, black hat conference, sophail, sophos, tavis ormandy Edit tavis ormandy's sophail presentation at the black hat security conference this year tavis ormandy presented his research into the way an anti-virus product , namely sophos' ... Read More
hanafisumenep 1:05 PM Add Comment anti-virus, kevin mcaleavey, KNOS, privacy software corporation, snake oil Edit careful who you let write the history books over the course of the previous two weeks, kevin mcaleavey has been publishing a series of blog posts on the infosecisland site (parts one ,... Read More
hanafisumenep 7:31 AM Add Comment Anti-Malware, anti-virus, Security Edit security: it's almost like it isn't there one of the ideas i continue to encounter over and over again throughout the years is the idea of liking a particular security product becaus... Read More
hanafisumenep 7:47 AM Add Comment anti-virus Edit pity the anti-virus naysayer pity the anti-virus naysayer, for when one decries the failure of anti-virus one reveals the failure in oneself i don't think it's n... Read More
hanafisumenep 5:13 PM Add Comment Anti-Malware, anti-virus, kris braun, malware, snake oil, sophos Edit well mine's infinity big so sophos seems to be a little late to the mine's bigger party, but at least they're following the go big or go home philosophy t... Read More
hanafisumenep 7:17 PM Add Comment Anti-Malware, anti-virus, chainn, compare people facebook app, facebook Edit bad advice: disable your av i'm sure you can probably think back and remember at least one example of a piece of software you've installed in the past that came... Read More
hanafisumenep 3:13 PM Add Comment anti-virus, thunderbyte Edit av vendors are not like drug pushers one of the erroneous ideas i sometimes come across is that av vendors are a little like drug pushers - that they want to keep you the user a... Read More