01/11 McAfee Still in the Game
Though there are many software developers in the field of security software, none have been around as McAfee which has been around since the days of the command-line PC. Many of today’s malware are reminiscent of malware from days gone by when viruses were the norm of the hacker. But from the innocent test of genius previous hackers showed, came more sinister actions such as the recurring DoS attacks that flooded servers the world over, leaving millions cut off from the rest of the world. Identity theft is also one of the more dangerous issues that have risen in the past years also brought to life by the movie “The Net”, where one person’s identity is substituted by another with little one can do due to the centralized data that is used for most banking and financial systems.
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