Re: Computers' Insecure Security - Business Week, 17Jun05

[Rodney Thayer <rodney () canola-jones com>]

It's nice to see Yankee Group has discovered something that other
folks have already seen;-)

Whether or not hackers should be treating
security products as more interesting targets is a point of discussion,
but the security product vendors are, after all, by definition, in the
security space so I think it's fair to question the security
of their products and unfair of them to presume they have some sort of
right to be sloppy on the security of their own implementations.

Gage wrote:
> Looks like we have a case of the blind leading the blind. (respectively
> excluding any dailydave's) the security software products that we recommend
> and use are now worst than the out-of-the box OS from MS. The new Yankee
> Group Report should be an interesting read for most.  It doesn't take much
> hacking talent to hold down the F8 key and select safe mode with networking
> to turn off 95+% of all security products. 
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> Gage
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> JUNE 17, 2005
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> Computers' Insecure Security
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> Software meant to protect PCs are now attack targets, revealing a rising
> number of flaws -- even more than those of Microsoft products
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> Think you're safe because your computer has the latest antivirus program,
> complete with daily updates via the Web? Or maybe you figure the firewall
> you have installed will stop malicious software from reaching your machine.
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> Well, you may not be as secure as you think. Hackers are increasingly
> finding flaws in the very programs designed to prevent attacks --
> computer-security software. Advertisement

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