McAfee CSO Issues Warning On the 'New Cold War' 77
angry tapir writes "The Cold War between the USA and the USSR may have ended in 1991, but a new conflict involving the same enemies has emerged on the digital frontier, according to McAfee's US chief security officer. Brett Wahlin, a former North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) counter intelligence agent, told Computerworld Australia that the RSA token hack in March this year – where the token information was used to infiltrate US defense contractor Lockheed Martin – used the same espionage tactics he encountered while serving as an agent from 1987 to 1991 with the US army for NATO."
Not "remedies". (Score:4, Informative)
McAfee doesn't sell remedies for anything (other than a remedy for a lack of McAfee software).
None of the "anti-virus" companies do. Because the way they're currently structured is as a reactive process.
Bad guys release a new "virus".
Users get infected.
Someone sends the infected files to McAfee.
McAfee releases new "signatures" to detect the new virus.
Repeat.
And McAfee makes a lot of money off of that process. Meanwhile, users keep getting infected by "mal-ware". It's so bad that you cannot even depend upon McAfee to detect all the "mal-ware" that is detected by other anti-virus products from a week ago. Why should you need to run multiple scans from multiple products to clear a Windows machine?
Where's the bootable CD from McAfee that will at least be able to identify what is known to be a regular Windows file and what has not been identified before? With a way to move those questionable files to external storage / submit them to McAfee?
But why spend money on something that might help? Particularly when just giving interviews about how things MIGHT get worse will generate more revenues for your company?
Colour me cynical.