Larry Seltzer

20
Oct
“If application whitelisting doesn’t become mainstream soon, we’re all doomed.”
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Designing and executing large product test comparisons and, more recently, analyzing technology security

 

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Larry Seltzer is Contributing Editor of PC Magazine and author of Security Watch blog. He is co-author of Linksys Networks: The Official Guide and author of ADMIN911: Windows 2000 Terminal Services. Throughout his career in software development, product testing, and industry analysis, Larry has authored over 1,000 published articles on related topics. He was one of the authors of NPL and NPL-R, fourth-generation languages for microcomputers by the now-defunct DeskTop Software Corporation of Princeton, NJ and he has also worked for Mathematica Policy Research, Chase Econometrics, and NSTL (National Software Testing Labs). 

 

15
Aug

Over a period of many years, hackers intruded into more than 70 large organizations around the world in a campaign McAfee dubbed Operation Shady RAT. It has garnered many a sensational headline, but the actual hacks involved are more typical than sensational, and they are the type that would have been stopped by a well-implemented whitelisting system.

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6
Jul

Fake antivirus products, also known as scareware and rogue antimalware, present serious problems for conventional antimalware products which search for signatures of known bad files or bad behavior. Short of smarter, better-educated users, world-scale reputation and whitelisting are the only way to tackle them.

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