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Shwed: Trojan horse was preventable

By Shirley Yom Tov

The case of the Trojan horse is a stellar example of damage that could have been prevented with the appropriate data security software, says Check Point Software Technologies CEO Gil Shwed.

Speaking at a conference in Eilat for customers and distributors, Shwed said the Trojan horse had managed to infiltrate highly sophisticated networks at some of Israel's leading companies, and to download astonishing amounts of data. The police have also been taken aback by the sheer amount of confidential information obtained.

"It could all have been prevented," Shwed rebuked corporate Israel, which presumably either scorned the danger or balked at the cost of buying protection. "Even a home user with Zone Alarm software, or an enterprise with appropriate software, could have detected the Trojan horse," Shwed went on to explain. "My guess is that within weeks, we'll find customers in Europe who were infected by the [alleged] hacker [Michael] Haefrati, because it transpires that he'd been in Germany and moved to London."

Shwed warned that the world was changing. "Let me bring the example of my personal PC," he said. "In October, I received 20,000 warnings of security events. Since then, the figure has risen to 60,000."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582910.html

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