ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

That is not a good enough excuse, though. As nation-state malware becomes more common, we will often lack the whole story. And as long as countries are battling it out in cyberspace, some of us will be targets and the rest of us might be unlucky enough to be sitting in the blast radius. Military-grade malware will continue to be elusive.

Right now, antivirus companies are probably sitting on incomplete stories about a dozen more varieties of government-grade malware. But they shouldn't.

We want, and need, our antivirus companies to tell us everything they can about these threats as soon as they know them, and not wait until the release of a political story makes it impossible for them to remain silent.

And techies can only fix it if government stays out of the way.

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce the newest member of its Board of Directors: renowned security expert Bruce Schneier.

« Le résultat est que des centaines de millions de périphériques sont assis sur l’Internet, non patchés et non sécurisés, depuis les 5 à 10 dernières années ». Bruce Schneier cite ensuite le cas d’un piratage au Brésil ayant affecté 4,5 millions de routeurs DSL ou encore une récente alerte de Symantec signalant un ver s’attaquant aux routeurs, caméras et autres périphériques embarqués en ajoutant que l‘Internet des Objets va rendre le problème encore plus aigu.