PC Magazine - Security Watch: Weaponized Antivirus: When Good Software Does Bad Things

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Oct 23, 2013
By Neil J. Rubenking

The Black Hat conference drew well over 7,000 attendees this summer, and 25,000 attended the RSA Conference in the spring. Attendance of the 8th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software, by contrast, is measured in dozens, not thousands. It's aimed at bringing forward the latest scholarly research in security, in an atmosphere that allows direct and candid interaction between all attendees. This year's conference (Malware 2013 for short) launched with a keynote by Dennis Batchelder, director of Microsoft Malware Protection Center, pointing out the hard problems that face the antimalware industry.

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