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Author Topic: Huge Security Breach at Security Firm Symantec  (Read 1819 times)

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Re: Huge Security Breach at Security Firm Symantec
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2012, 05:46:45 PM »

hi
quote foxnews /  Symantec:"After all, there isn’t much hackers can learn from the code which they hadn’t known before," Rachwald wrote. "Why? Most of the anti-virus product is based on attack signatures. By basing defenses on signatures, malware authors continuously write malware to evade signature detection (in 2007, antivirus could only detect between 20-30% of malware)."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/06/symantec-source-code-theft-likely-no-threat-to-average-user-analyst-says/?google_editors_picks=true#ixzz1je0dyR56

I don't remember them saying that 5 years ago  ???
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