Re: FAA hacked by patriots

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Felix von Leitner <leitner () vim org>

Thus spake InfoSec News (isn () c4i org):

> Because of pricing-per-server, the FAA employs a very cheap and hardly
> reliable brand of anti-virus technology, which has been documented as
> not even close to a top-five contender. This worries a lot of
> people--especially those of us in IT security who have to fly every
> week.

I'm not worried whether the FAA uses the right virus checker or not.
I'm worried that they use crap operating systems that have viruses in
the first place.  You are always one step behind the virus writers
with scanners.  This may be acceptable for Mom and Pop behind their
19200 modem, but it is not for any public administration in a sector
where potentially lives are at stake.

Peru is on the right track here (see slashdot).

Felix



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