anti-virus rants

devising a framework for thinking about malware and related issues such as viruses, spyware, worms, rootkits, drm, trojans, botnets, keyloggers, droppers, downloaders, rats, adware, spam, stealth, fud, snake oil, and hype...

Saturday, August 03, 2019

the disclosure debate is the wrong argument

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prompted by an exchange on twitter this morning i began spending mental resources on an old favourite that everyone loves (hates) to go over...

Saturday, July 28, 2018

winblows update

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so i'm using my computer thursday night when i get a notification that updates have been applied that require a reboot. ok, wha...

Sunday, February 04, 2018

thoughts on attack automation

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axiom: there is no perfect security because there is no perfect security we can say with certainty that systems will never be perfectly se...

Friday, December 30, 2016

thoughts on "In Search of Evidence-Based IT-Security"

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Christopher Soghoian brought to my attention a video of a talk by Hanno Böck at the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress. in it Hanno puts f...

Friday, October 21, 2016

highlights from #sector2016

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i haven't posted about the sector conference in a number of years, in spite of attending. let's break that trend. here's some hi...

Friday, September 02, 2016

the anti-virus harm balance

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anti-virus software , like all software, has defects. sometimes those defects are functional and manifest in a failure to do something the s...

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

there's a quality problem in the anti-malware industry

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if you follow infosec news sources at all, by now you've probably heard about the claim made by an anonymous pair of ex-kaspersky employ...

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