I don't know about you folks, but I just love hearing from "malware experts" (so called) that they found some new form of threat or behavior that many of us have seen 20 - 25 years or more ago. Like this article, we know it's dribble and by far nothing at all new. But when I'm talking to folks that claim to be malware experts, or IT security experts, and they start stating stuff like "....yah, malware's getting so bad these days that viruses are infecting malware! Imagine that?!...." I just laugh to myself and put some type of mental scarlet letter on their forehead....
Is it weird that I no longer feel old when I realize I've been doing this stuff for about 25 years now? Maybe THAT's the sign that I'm truly old? :-) Michael P. Blanchard Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 32 Coslin Drive Southboro, MA 01772 -----Original Message----- From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org] On Behalf Of Robert Slade Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:29 PM To: funsec@linuxbox.org Subject: [funsec] BitDefender, you've created a monster! (story ...) www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/23465/viruses-and-worms-are-evolving-into-frankenmalware/ OK, this is obviously going to be the AV/infosec story of the week. (At least this particular story notes that it isn't a big deal, although they don't seem to realize it's old news.) (If any AV/anti-malware/security company wants to hire me, I'd be glad to look back through my archives and find threats from 25 years ago and dress them up in new jargon in order to seed out stupid press releases like the one that started this. I've got a million of 'em ...) ====================== rsl...@computercrime.org sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@vcn.bc.ca "If you do buy a computer, don't turn it on." - Richards' 2nd Law ============= for back issues: [Base URL] site http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/ CISSP refs: [Base URL]mnbksccd.htm Security Dict.: [Base URL]secgloss.htm Book reviews: [Base URL]mnbk.htm [Base URL]review.htm Partial/recent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techbooks/ Review mailing list: send mail to techbooks-subscr...@egroups.com http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
