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Re: [News] McAfee's Journal and Open Source Views

__/ [ Richard Rasker ] on Monday 17 July 2006 12:30 \__

> Op Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:02:12 +0100, schreef Roy Schestowitz:
> 
>> McAfee's new security journal: Sage is not sage
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | In that briefing, Marcus admitted there were some "controversial"
>> | opinions contained in the inaugural issue, but said they were not
>> | attempts to create FUD about open source. I've since had a chance to
>> | review the first issue and have my own opinion about that.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/15/1331229&from=rss
> 
> 
> This looks pretty nasty - especially coming from a party which ought to
> know what they're talking about, more than any other.


McAfee might just be jealous. They can't seem to manage to guard their own
back yard (ironic for a firm offering security). Just published:

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/07/17/217033/McAfee+fixes+major+security+flaw.htm

McAfee fixes major security flaw

,----[ Quote]
| Anti-virus specialist McAfee has been criticised after it "silently fixed"
| a security bug in its ePolicy Orchestrator software.
`----

Convenient to blame some Linux script kiddie, right?


> But I can't seem to locate the offending PDF document anywhere on McAfee's
> site, and their search function doesn't turn up anything either. Have they
> taken it down again?

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