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Linux Doomed to Virus Plague. (Again.)
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| Not only that, but Linux permeates every possible segment of tech-- routers
| and networking devices, home and business automation, security and
| surveillance systems, phones, netbooks and other consumer mobile devices,
| desktops, vehicles, media servers and settop boxes; it's already a major
| player in the datacenter, server room, mainframes, clusters, and
| supercomputing. Linux runs on multiple CPU architectures. So a Windows-type
| Trojan horse or worm on Linux should have a much more catastrophic effect
| because of Linux' much greater reach.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/07/linux-doomed-to.html
Why Cloud Computing Needs More Chaos
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| Virtual machines, which perform like physical machines but are simulated with
| software, have fewer sources of entropy: Linux-based virtual machines, for
| instance, gather random numbers only from the exact millisecond time on their
| internal clocks. And that source isn't enough to generate strong keys for
| encryption, Stamos argues. "Normally there's enough variation that after a
| while your operating system can gather up the entropy it needs to provide you
| with secure random numbers," he says. "The fundamental issue is that with
| virtualized hardware, many of those random variations don't exist."
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| [...]
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| If a malicious hacker were to set up his or her own Linux virtual machine in
| Amazon's EC2 cloud service, for example, he or she could use that machine's
| entropy pool to better guess at the entropy pools of other recently created
| Linux-based virtual servers in Amazon's cloud, Stamos posits.
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http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/30/cloud-computing-security-technology-cio-network-cloud-computing.html
Why does Forbes pretend that only "Linux" can do 'malicious' things like
reverse-engineering?
Fox News reports new Mac virus that is neither Mac nor viral nor new
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| A report published by Fox News says that “online criminals are apparently so
| impressed with its scorching sales they are sending Macintosh computers an
| attack typically aimed at” Windows PCs. The story then falls apart in series
| of inept contradictions.
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/07/30/fox-news-reports-new-mac-virus-that-is-neither-mac-nor-viral-nor-new/
Related:
Does antivirus have a future?
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| Peter Gutmann, a researcher at the University of Auckland who presented the
| results of a study of the commercial market for malware at August's Defcon,
| estimates that a good virus programmer can make as much as $200,000 a year
| (here, a 660KB PDF). Alan Cox, an open-source security researcher, points out
| some additional possibilities. One is malware designed to sit under today's
| virtual machines. A proof-of-concept paper proposing such an attack, called
| Subvirt (PDF), appeared last year, written by three researchers from
| Microsoft and two from the University of Michigan. A presentation at last
| year's Black Hat security conference from Joanna Rutkowska, a researcher at
| Coseinc, a Singapore-based security company, covered a much leaner attack she
| called Blue Pill, which targets the virtualisation built into Windows Vista
| and into current processors from both AMD and Intel.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.spam
Is an antivirus gap looming?
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| The failure of antivirus companies to adapt to the dramatic malware
| appearance rates in 2007 tells us there's time for a change and there's room
| for a new class of tools. "AV is dead" is the battle cry of a new industry
| analyst report. Antivirus companies may not be going the way of the dodo, but
| to many customers, the concept of antivirus as the last line of defense has
| been thrown out the window. It's time for a better approach, one that can
| keep up and really defend networks.
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http://news.com.com/2010-7348_3-6195322.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Predicting the demise of antivirus apps
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| "It's the beginning of the end for antivirus," says Robin Bloor, partner
| at consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, who adds he began his
| "antivirus is dead" campaign a year ago and feels even more strongly
| about it today. "I'm going to keep beating this drum. The approach
| antivirus vendors take is completely wrong. The criminals working to
| release these viruses against computer users are testing against
| antivirus software. They know what works and how to create variants."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/0047A206FF40A92ECC2572C3000FD867
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