"Is the Computer Security Community Barking Up the Wrong Trees?".
The author discusses a discrepancy between the computer-security needs of average users and security issues that industry and researchers have largely focused their efforts on. Although hundreds of research papers exist about so-called "zero day" attacks in which hackers exploit software vulnerabili...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 6; pp. 10 - 12 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jun2013
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