I find it ridiculous that any time a really well written malware is found it is assumed that it must have been written by a government. Since when has government been the example of efficiency and clarity that is requisite to high quality software? The Open-Source world is full of examples of non-state programmers writing excellent code that does amazing things.
Yet Another Government-Sponsored Malware
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Re: Yet Another Government-Sponsored Malware
#22Stoxnet was discovered by Belorussian anti-virus company, Duqu & Project Sauron were discovered by Kaspersky Lab. Are US-based anti-virus companies that bad or ...?
I think that is a bit of a skewed sample. Stuxnet infected mostly Iranian computers, not a lot of US AV companies there. Duqu and Sauron also infected mostly Russian companies, which are far more likely to use Kaspersky Labs than a US AV company. Similarly, most of the reveals of Russian state-sponsored malware is done by US AV companies, for instance the DNC hacks, because Russian state-sponsored malware will tend t…
DNC hacks are actually leaks. :) Attribution is still not clear for me as any proficient hacking group could do this. It's not NSA after all.
>Russian state-sponsored malware will tend to target US entities.
I haven't heard of any. So its either 1) there is no such malware, 2) it stays undetected, 3) it is detected, but now is wrong timing to disclose it.(if ever)
I don't really afraid of Russians. Snowden's leak & Kaspersky research shows that NSA is far more superior threat to anybody, citizens included. And US-based anti-virus companies fail to protect me regardless of what their reason is.
Re: Yet Another Government-Sponsored Malware
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's a content curator for a particular category of content. Would you prefer to follow all of the relevant sources and sift through the cruft yourself?
But people should be submitting the original source, not Schneier's link, unless he adds something useful.
I can agree with that, however his interest in an issue is a primary indicator of its importance for me.
Re: Yet Another Government-Sponsored Malware
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's a content curator for a particular category of content. Would you prefer to follow all of the relevant sources and sift through the cruft yourself?
But people should be submitting the original source, not Schneier's link, unless he adds something useful.
Reading a couple dozen different sources and summarizing anything interesting in them is useful.