Chinese Security Company Shares Huge Malware Database

**MIG-31** · Jul 2, 2009, 07:33 AM

A Chinese company that has created a massivedatabase of malware found on Chinese Web sites opened up the information to other security organizations on Thursday.

Beijing-based KnownSec gathered the viruses and other information with a crawler that scans nearly 2 million Chinese Web sites each day, Zhao Wei, CEO of the security company, said in an interview in Beijing. He planned to give a presentation on the subject at the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) security conference in Kyoto, Japan this week.
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Source: PC World

Jul 2, 2009, 07:33 AM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 45,240 Rep Power: 252 System Specs	Chinese Security Company Shares Huge Malware Database A Chinese company that has created a massivedatabase of malware found on Chinese Web sites opened up the information to other security organizations on Thursday. Beijing-based KnownSec gathered the viruses and other information with a crawler that scans nearly 2 million Chinese Web sites each day, Zhao Wei, CEO of the security company, said in an interview in Beijing. He planned to give a presentation on the subject at the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) security conference in Kyoto, Japan this week. _____________ Source: PC World __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here How you can help HardwareHeaven by using Digg! HH Hardware Diggs / GH Gaming Diggs