It’s been a contentious meeting in Dubai at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), where the United States and its allies have been trying to fend off efforts by Russia, China, and others to expand the writ of the International Telecommunications Union to cover the Internet. Besides that fundamental dispute, there have been some
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Antivirus Software is Not Failproof
By Stewart Baker on
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach
Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure, an antivirus company, wrote an interesting post discussing the limits of antivirus software. Of particular note is that Flame, Stuxnet, and Duqu were all reported to antivirus firms months or years before they were flagged as malware. He suggests that his and other antivirus firms failed because of the sophistication of…