Just two months ago, I invoked the malicious code problem in a Justice League blog entry. The growth in malicious code is caused by the Trinity of Trouble (connectivity, complexity and extensibility) which incidentally is also what makes the software security problem more interesting to work on every day. My most recent informIT article, titled simply “Modern Malware” is about the problem.
This time, the article was sparked by a very interesting trend report from Dasient about the malware problem. The Dasient guys are approaching the problem from the server end. Founder Neil Daswani was on the Google software security team for a while and is now going after the problem more aggressively.
Dasient produced a video introducing the problem of serving seemingly simple web pages that comes about when advertising is present.
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