SophosLabs director Mark Harris talks about the evolution of
malware.
Sophos, a world leader in IT security, today announced that Mark
Harris, global director of SophosLabs™, appeared in an
eWeek "Onsecurity" podcast with senior writer, Matt
Hines. Harris talked about the evolution of the malware industry
and why simple virus attacks are still troubling computer
users.
Sophos currently protects against over 200,000 threats, and the
amount of malware discovered by security experts continues to rise
steadily. Rather than developing new, unique pieces of malware, the
Sophos expert explains that cyber criminals often tweak existing
malware in order to bypass less sophisticated security
applications.
"People often think that you would have to be really smart to
write malware, but this isn't the case at all, " said Mark
Harris, global director of SophosLabs. "The vast majority of
the threats we analyze today are variations of malware already in
existence. Why do they recycle? Because they don't need to reinvent
the wheel: there are enough insufficiently protected computers out
there, and on those machines, this stuff works."
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More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
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