http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/19/us-mcafee-idUSTRE80I0A620120119
I post this primarily as a warning to those who have this product installed. However, I do feel compelled to note that this outfit, along with another that comes in a yellow box, and one particularly trendy product, have had a) a great deal of market success, and b) a number of absolutely stunning failures over the years. (Which, I suppose, is just another example of how marketing trumps security, every time ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org Separation of test and production environments is one of those things that is such basic common sense that it wouldn't occur to me to have to point to something that says to do it. The first time you test something on your production network and it breaks something else which breaks something else, etc etc etc is the LAST time they will ask you why it has to be done on a separate network. - Mim Britt, CISSPforum 20090126 victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
