Friday, May 9, 2014

Mr. Hacker

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

Jamie Zawinski

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Symantec Corp (SYMC) invented commercial antivirus software to protect computers from hackers a quarter-century ago. Now the company says such tactics are doomed to failure.
Antivirus "is dead," says Brian Dye, Symantec's senior vice president for information security. "We don't think of antivirus as a moneymaker in any way."

Antivirus products aim to prevent hackers from getting into a computer. But hackers often get in anyway these days. So Mr. Dye is leading a reinvention effort at Symantec that reflects a broader shift in the $70 billion a year cybersecurity industry.
Rather than fighting to keep the bad guys out, new technologies from an array of companies assume hackers get in so aim to spot them and minimize the damage.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/05/symantec-says-antivirus-software-is-dead.html

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

Kevin Mitnick

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