Re: IBM report reviews Internet crime

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- "Andre Gironda" <andre () operations net> wrote:

[lots of good stuff elided]

> It's our fault for not pushing AV on your customers, and it's the AV's
> fault for not providing audit data to us, and it's the software
> vendors' fault for causing us to have to recommend AV and for AV to
> exist.  The liability should land on the software vendors.

AV is simply a tool, not a panacea.

In fact, what to do about the hundreds of thousands of compromised
websites/servers that help facilitate this crime?

What about the thousands of malicious rogue DNS servers?

There's enough problem-spaces to point fingers all around...

$.02,

- - ferg

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