Recent news is highlighting once again how devastating targeted client-side attacks can be (Advanced Persistent Threats). I’ve explained in my article A New Computer Security Gold Standard why such attacks are possible. The most important reason is reliance of security schemes upon signature databases, an approach nowadays utterly anachronistic.

 ”Data from Norway’s oil and defense industries may have been stolen in what is feared to be one of the most extensive data espionage cases in the country’s history, security officials said [...]“. Read more here.