Entries from February 2009 ↓

About Code Signing

I Love You

There was a lot of love going around in May 2000, but as they say love hurts. If organizations would have had some code signing routines in place, the ILOVEYOU virus would have been killed in its crib.

Of course those hippie days are long gone as no one tends to allow .vbs files in the mail server or if it’s not blocked there the email client should block it.

However code signing can do more than just avoiding the mitigating click, still in this post I won’t focus on the security benefits of code signing.
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