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Google bots subversion

There is a lot of truth in saying that every tool can be used by good and by evil. There is no point in blocking the tools themselves as the attacker will turn to new tools and subvert the very familiar tools in unexpected ways. Now Google crawler bots were turned into such a weapon ...

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Dump anti-virus and move to secure-by-design?

I stumbled across an article this morning that analyses the threat to the mobile devices from malware and comes to the conclusion that it is not likely a good idea to  have an anti-virus on your mobile. The premises are that only a very few of the mobile devices are currently infected, so the conclusion ...

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