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What is antivirus software, Part 3?

22

Aug

2011

I seem to be asking this question a lot. I have already written one article and one previous blog entry on this subject. It is an important question: Millions of people are using antivirus and probably every piece of data on this planet has been processed at least once through one or more antivirus solutions. […]

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Sophos Antivirus Flaws Revealed at Hacker Conference

07

Aug

2011

LAS VEGAS — A researcher presenting at Black Hat picked apart Sophos Antivirus software and found it lacking in several areas that leave it vulnerable to attack or circumvention — something he says might apply to other antivirus vendors’ products as well, but he just hasn’t looked. Tavis Ormandy, who works as a researcher for […]

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BitCoin – A matter of trust going bad

12

Jul

2011

In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto had and idea: A digital currency that could be used without bank or central entities, based on the trust the users had for each other. With the help of public key cryptography and the Internet, members of this peer-to peer network could tell if a user vas a legitimate one and […]

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