February 06, 2007 (Computerworld) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- An emerging breed of sophisticated malware is raising doubts about the ability of traditional signature-based security software to fend off new viruses and worms, according to experts at this week's RSA security conference here.
Signature-based technologies are now "crumbling under the pressure of the number of attacks from cybercriminals," said Art Coviello, president of RSA Inc., the security division of EMC Corp. This year alone, about 200,000 virus variants are expected to be released, he said. At the same time, antivirus companies are, on average, at least two months behind in tracking malware. And "static" intrusion-detection systems can intercept only about 70% of new threats.
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Researchers explore scrapping Internet
Saturday April 14th, 2007
NEW YORK - Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but many believe a “clean slate” approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock helped supervise the first exchange of meaningless test data between two machines on Sept. 2, 1969.
The Internet “works well in many situations but was designed for completely different assumptions,” said Dipankar Raychaudhuri, a Rutgers University professor overseeing three clean-slate projects. “It’s sort of a miracle that it continues to work well today.”
Is somebody kidding? Is this a joke? Do we want big bro controlling the net like s/he controls everything else in our lives?
I tried to respond to this Times/CNN article which was posted on Saturday and the "comments were closed" after 4,942 posts.
This cannot happen.
The net has democratized the world. I'll never vote again.
Yell at somebody!
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