Dark Reading: When Antivirus Fails, All Is Not Lost

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Following Flame, Stuxnet, and Duqu, even the antivirus industry is questioning its ability to stop targeted attacks. Yet other technologies exist to catch malware in the corporate network

Jun 05, 2012
By Robert Lemos

Starting in late 2011, unknown attackers attempted to install malicious code on a computer belonging to a client of security firm Bit9. The attack, which occurred around 6 a.m. each day, failed because the company's whitelisting technology did not recognize the program as an approved application and so blocked its installation.

Only recently was the attack given another name: Flame.

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