While many outside of the security industry
still perceive “hackers” as teenagers or isolated geeks who work alone, a recent research report encourages the general
public to see malware as a cooperative industry that supports
specialists, economies, and supply chains. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Following the Malware Supply Chain
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Donald Sears
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While many outside of the security industry
still perceive “hackers” as teenagers or isolated geeks who work alone, a recent research report encourages the general
public to see malware as a cooperative industry that supports
specialists, economies, and supply chains. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Techno Dan on
"It's sort of like making guns -- the notion that malware doesn't do crime, it's the people who use it that do the crime."
Nice swipe against gun manufacturers. In reality, it takes people (plural, mostly) to do the malware thing, just like it takes a person to fire a gun. We're not at the point yet where computers themselves make their own malware; it takes people to do it, people with malicious intent at least somewhere along the line.