| The Future of Cyber Security: Hackers Have Grown Up | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 02:28 PM | |||
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Late last year, the software engineers developing a new Windows-based networking client confronted an all-too-common problem in today's hostile internet environment: How would they make their software resistant to the legions of enemies waiting to attack it? Particularly worrisome was a key feature of their code, a mechanism to accept updates online. If it were subverted, an attacker could slip his own program into an installed base of millions of machines. | ||
| Complete info at Wired. | |||