<story><title>NBC.com hacked, serving up Citadel malware</title><url>http://hitmanpro.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/nbc-com-hacked-serving-up-citadel-malware/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>I think Google Chrome goes into the top-10 list of &quot;software/systems/services which have improved real world Internet security the most&quot; -- wide reach, moderate impact.  Probably in the top 3.&lt;p&gt;(I still think ssh tops the list -- pretty narrowly focused, but SO MUCH BETTER than telnet, rlogin, etc., even kerberized telnet which didn&apos;t encrypt contents, only auth.  And, like Chrome, it&apos;s not just most secure, it&apos;s &lt;i&gt;better&lt;/i&gt; than the alternatives in every other way, so it got wide adoption for non-security reasons too.)&lt;p&gt;I guess https falls in there too, but probably the move to &quot;SSL all traffic by default, at least if the user opts-in&quot; is the reason, not the &quot;https just the final form for credit card processing.&quot;&lt;p&gt;SSL also IMO deserves a 9 or 10 place for START-TLS in mail protocols like SMTP and IMAP.</text></comment>
<story><title>NBC.com hacked, serving up Citadel malware</title><url>http://hitmanpro.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/nbc-com-hacked-serving-up-citadel-malware/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diminoten</author><text>It&apos;s cool that we have Google capable of on-the-fly warning users when malware is detected on a popular website.&lt;p&gt;You can complain a lot about Google&apos;s business model, but that&apos;s a damn valuable service.  Probably saved a lot of computers today.</text></comment>