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Sourcefire, best known for its Snort intrusion-prevention technology, Tuesday is unveiling a new open source project called Razorback that’s designed to spot malware and especially zero-day exploits. “We want others to test it to see if our idea about this new protection framework is as innovative as we think it is,” says Matt Watchinski, senior [...]

Sourcefire, best known for its Snort intrusion-prevention technology, Tuesday is unveiling a new open source project called Razorback that’s designed to spot malware and especially zero-day exploits. “We want others to test it to see if our idea about this new protection framework is as innovative as we think it is,” says Matt Watchinski, senior [...]

The typical home user running Windows faces the “unreasonable” task of patching software an average of every five days, a security and vulnerability research company said today. “It’s completely unreasonable to expect users to master so many different patch mechanisms and spend so much time patching,” said Thomas Kristensen, the chief security officer of Secunia. [...]