Computer Hacking Made Easy

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_34/b4144036807250.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech

by mgcreed • 17 years ago

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tptacek• 17 years ago

This article says nothing you don't already know, but it's worth noting how it's the payoff for a classic marketing department PR strategy: keep conducting "surveys" of some sort and publishing the results in press releases, and eventually someone in the trade press will cite them to write a trend story.

chrischen• 17 years ago

What we need is some nonprofit or government maintained list of viruses/Trojans From which all virus scan companies report to draw from and some form of at least basic detection Incorporated into every computer, as opposed to each virus scanner using it's own definition list. I mean this could be an issue of national security.

verdant• 17 years ago

There have been script kiddies for a long time. This sounds like more of the same.

indigoshift• 17 years ago

Indeed. It seems like I trip over one of these "it's easier than ever for the kids to be haxors nowadays! You gotta think like The Bad Guy to stay ahead of them! But we will, so keep giving us security money!" articles about every 18 months or so.

Computer Hacking Made Easy

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