radware wants to sell you something
A "security company" (yes, those are scare quotes,) named Radware recently decided to hype a very low risk Firefox bug to ridiculous proportions in a lame attempt to sell you their security package.
Computer and online security is already difficult enough for regular people without these kinds of sleazy tactics. Radware should be ashamed and if they're not, they should be shamed.
This kind of behavior, regardless of which program is being targeted, is simply unacceptable.
George Hulme, over at InformationWeek's Security Weblog has more.
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
Norton's the textbook example of this sort of protection racket:
They sell an incredibly bloated and ineffective antivirus program which hogs so much system resources that you end up buying their "optimisation" software just to be able to use your computer. There's rumours that this is how they generate demand for their antivirus product in the first place...
Posted by: ant | July 31, 2008 11:40 AM
I also 'tried' to contact Radware about this, but they got back to me claiming they had no one to speak about the issue (until tomorrow, which is nuts since who issues releases without having spokespeople available).
What I was curious about though was whether or not Radware properly disclosed this bug (regardless of its criticality) to Mozilla or not. I was frankly a little surprised to see the Radware release come out ahead of the Mozilla advisory, which is something that no doubt affects the hype.. a little.
Posted by: Sean Kerner | July 31, 2008 11:58 AM
there's nothing as "very low risk" in security bugs.
Posted by: wok dukes | August 1, 2008 12:38 AM