__/ [ Richard Rasker ] on Monday 17 July 2006 12:47 \__
> Op Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:30:12 +0200, schreef Richard Rasker:
>
>> Op Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:02:12 +0100, schreef Roy Schestowitz:
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>>> McAfee's new security journal: Sage is not sage
>
>
>> ... 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?
>
> Hm, apparently, I've been looking with certain body parts which were
> not designed for that task :-/ IOW: found a link to it - but I'll be
> damned if I register to read it. Ah well, I'll stick with the NewsForge
> article then.
>
> Richard Rasker
Here's more on the same. They draw a connection between open source software
and crackers.
Hackers learn from open source
,----[ Quote ]
| Hackers are using techniques popularised by developers of open-source
| software like Linux to improve their malicious code, a researcher at
| McAfee has said.
|
| Nowhere is this more apparent than within the growing families of
| 'bot' software, which allow hackers to remotely control infected
| computers.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=6601
They could feed Microsoft FUD ("OSS is cancer, yada, yada")...
,----[ Quote ]
| "If you are a typical Windows user, un- or ill-informed about what
| free software and open source are all about, you'll probably lap up
| Sage because its deceptions go right over your head and it allows you to
| feel warm and fuzzy about using proprietary software like Windows and
| McAfee products instead of that evil open source, or even the hybrid
| evil of Mac OS X. I'm sure the Windows trade press and Microsoft's
| public relations folks will like it, too. Watch for selective quotes
| from Sage appearing on Microsoft.com or in Microsoft ads in the near
| future.
|
| But if you are knowledgeable about open source software, or the debate
| over full-disclosure in the world of computer security, you'll find
| Sage one-sided and lacking in substance. Open source is the least of
| Microsoft's security problems. McAfee's business model depends upon
| that teeming cesspool of insecurity, however, so it shies away from
| the real issues and fundamental causes.
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That's from Newsforge as well, by the way. Speaking of AV vendors, Symantec
takes the very opposite view in the sense that it appears to sidle with
non-Microsoft options. Their CEO evangelises Macs and they also collaborate
with IBM over some Open Source backup solution.
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