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Malware Challenges in a Cross-Platform World |
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Source: www.computerworld.com - Posted by Paul VonBurg
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With the advent of the inexpensive and powerful personal computer, networks have evolved and are now implemented exclusively using small computers connected among themselves and to the Internet. Don't get me wrong, though -- the mainframe isn't dead yet. In fact, Gartner estimates that more than 80% of business applications are written in Cobol, one of the earliest high-level programming languages. But the truth is that, although still alive and kicking, the mainframe has nevertheless lost ground in our current environment, which is focused on PCs and distributed server architectures.
Today, computer security presents a far greater challenge than it did in those early days. In the purely mainframe era -- or even in earlier days of network computing -- there were no widespread viruses or spyware to deal with, and security wasn't nearly as complicated as it is now. That is primarily because the Internet hadn't been factored into the computing equation.
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