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Andrew Jaquith (@arj)
- Twitter Bio:
- CTO of SilverSky, the expert provider of cloud security solutions. Security & mobile enthusiast; advisor; former Forrester analyst; full-time pundit.
- Location:
- Boston
- Website:
- https://www.silversky.com/blog
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Symantec's chart shows a distribution of zero-day exploits based on how long they persist before being discovered. The average is close to 10 months. (Click to enlarge.)Software vendors are constantly on the watch for so-called “zero day” vulnerabilities–flaws in their code that hackers find and exploit before the first day companies become aware of them. But the term “zero-day” doesn’t capture just how early hackers’ head-starts often are: Day zero, it seems, often lasts more than 300 days.That’s one of the findings of a broad study of hackers’ zero-day exploits by two researchers at the antivirus firm Symantec that they plan to present at the
Intel completed its multibillion-dollar acquisition of McAfee almost a year and a half ago, and this week McAfee co-President Mike DeCesare spoke with Network World senior editor Ellen Messmer about what the merger of Intel's chip-making capabilities and McAfee's security expertise is expected to bring down the road.
Question: What can we expect going forward from the Intel buy of McAfee? What do we get from this that represents the strengths of both combined?
Answer: A lot of customers ask me that! Intel's
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