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SC 25: History of Malware and How Privacy Gets No Respect


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Malware in its various forms has been around since the start of the computing age, but one platform remains more susceptible to evil code than others with more than 1 million new unique virus  signatures discovered each and every day, according to F-Secure.

Also according to F-Secure's Threat Strategist David Perry, it is "primarily a Windows world attribute." However, the concerns are shifting with the proliferation of mobile. And just as the Internet offers little native security, it also does not respect privacy.

In this entertaining and humorous exchanged recorded at Black Hat, securitycurrent's Vic Wheatman and David Perry discuss these and other issues.

 

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Cyber Pro FilesBy securitycurrent