2010年5月15日星期六

Security experts: malicious virus started to target the network infrastructure equipment

Compared to the situation ten years ago, today's Internet users, such as Do not click on unfamiliar links, Do not open e-mail attachment, do not make random strangers on Facebook and so on so-called security measures have been considered quite familiar. However, just to educate Internet users so that they can do these fluff on the Internet become more secure? This regard, the security company Whitehat CTO Jeremiah Grossman said that different views, in his view, in the maintenance of desktop security, campaign, people have been defeated. He believes that in today's large-scale high-profit enterprises, almost all of the security policy for each of the company regarded as a possible risk birthplace of the computer, he said "appears to abandon the party just in desktop security win the battle of faith. "In Grossman seems to give up feeling that the root cause and not just PC-related vulnerabilities in the security status of prevention, and malicious virus recently has a new target." Botnets are starting to cats and routers for broadband equipment aimed attack. Think about how horrible the attack. If such large-scale attacks began to start, even if we replace the virus infected PC, and replace iPad them less vulnerable to attacks such compilation of portable devices, but because of the underlying network has been lawless elements control These measures would be futile. In contrast, for the security of routers and broadband cats rarely have introduced preventive measures, which would give the security of desktop systems has brought new challenges. "