"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...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 6; pp. 10 - 12
Main Author:	Hong, Jason
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jun2013
Subjects:	Computer security Data protection Malware Computer hacking Software failures Microsoft Corp. Corruption
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost