80% of Most Popular Anti-Virus programs are rendered useless July 22, 2006
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At a security breakfast hosted by e-mail security firm Messagelabs in Sydney on Wednesday, the general manager of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT), Graham Ingram, told the audience that popular desktop antivirus applications “don’t work”.
“At the point we see it as a CERT, which is very early on — the most popular brands of antivirus on the market … have an 80 percent miss rate. That is not a detection rate that is a miss rate.
“So if you are running these pieces of software, eight out of 10 pieces of malicious code are going to get in,” said Ingram. full story here
Rootkits get better at hiding July 19, 2006
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A new Trojan horse is so good at hiding itself that some security researchers claim a new chapter has begun in their battle against malicious-code authors.
The new pest, dubbed “Rustock” by Symantec and “Mailbot.AZ” by F-Secure, uses “rootkit” techniques crafted to avoid the detection technology used by security software, Symantec and F-Secure said in recent analyses.
“It can be considered the first born of the next generation of rootkits,” Elia Florio, a security response engineer at Symantec, wrote in a blog late last month. “Rustock.A consists of a mix of old techniques and new ideas that when combined make a malware that is stealthy enough to remain undetected by many rootkit detectors commonly used.” full story here
