Clampi: If a five year old threat is thought of as new….
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
You may have read some of the national papers today with their coverage of the ‘new’ Trojan threat ‘Clampi’.
It isn’t new, and I’ve spent quite a lot of my day trying to understand how the nationals got round to believing that it was, and how it’s become the ‘latest and greatest’ serious malware threat.
So far I’ve worked out that a Times reporter picked up on discussions of Clampi in a US paper, talked to Symantec, and decided to build a story on it.
Yep, indeed it is a threat, but its the not the only one, as I’ve tried to explain as clearly as I could in my need to know.
However from the media coverage I’ve got the impression that it is the ‘latest and greatest threat’ - it’s nothing of the sort.
The more I learn about security and the more I read how the national media reports on it - the more I realise how far we have to go before many of the journalists can even understand it.
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