Government InfoSec professionals and leaders, please read this.
Vmyths The China Syndrome
Vmyths is the
only computer security website that investigated and revealed details of the antivirus industry’s dirtiest little secret — a
conspiracy among antivirus vendors to arm China with viruses. Their goal: to
pave governmental inroads to China’s growing corporate market for PCs and software.
Vmyths interviewed some of the biggest players in the scandal
while they were reeling from guilt, including
the U.S. citizen who stood at the very center of it all. Collectively, these “deep throats” admitted to Vmyths that officials in Beijing received up to 30,000 unique virus samples, detailed source code, and reverse-engineering notes. These insiders also admitted they purposely kept U.S. federal officials in the dark.
U.S. citizens at
McAfee,
Symantec, and
Trend Micro played key roles in the secret arming of China — all of it done while those companies advised the White House and the FBI on global cyber-threats.
Richard Clarke, then a senior White House staffer, was so oblivious to it that he offered to give “STU-III” secure telephones to antivirus vendors so they could talk freely & openly with each other.
Another reason to go with free AV companies?
