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Re: Spamming as a Service in Total Protection
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:39:27 +1300
Rob Slade wrote:
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 ...)
And note that this outfit is now owned by Intel and there were all kinds of mysterious ramblings about accelerating security software functionality by putting elements of this outfit's software in the hardware when the purchase was announced. Imagine your server had this functionality in the silicon of its Ethernet chipset to off-load CPU? It may be something of an annoyance now to update all that software, but having to pull and replace the Ethernet cards, or even motherboards, of all your servers to fix faulty silicon? Yeah -- hopefully they will be able to deal with such issues with microcode patches and such, but what age of chipsets do you think Intel will actively support? (Full disclosure: I'm on contract to one of the other "outfits" (one Rob didn't refer to) but this is purely my own take on such things...) Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ 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.
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