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2017-08-14 18:48
DirectDefense Charge Against Carbon Black BackfiresSecurity vendors are known to sprinkle hyperbole among their claims. But the strategy has backfired for DirectDefense, which mistakenly cast endpoint protection vendor Carbon Black as a contributor to the "world's largest pay-for-play data exfiltration botnet."
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