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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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Car software security

I stumbled across an article on car software viruses. I did not see anything unexpected really. The experts “hope” to get it all fixed before the word gets out and things start getting messy. Which tells us that things are in a pretty bad shape right now. The funny thing is though that the academic ...

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