From an industry point of view its always the DB size that matters. When MS bought Giant it was due their DB size, it was huge and useless e.g there were installers that generated random guid for active x controls, registering those guids as a signature was pointless but they still went with it, when it was time to sell the MS guys fell for it. I worked for a company that was sold eventually and it was the same story when the founders decided that its time to sell it was all about the number of signatures.
Kasperskey are known to have a brilliant engine, this leak is a huge blow for them
On a different note: I wonder how this happened in the first place, the security companies that I worked for were pretty strict on code access, I couldn't checkout any code I wish, only a few people could pull the entire code repository.
From an industry point of view its always the DB size that matters. When MS bought Giant it was due their DB size, it was huge and useless e.g there were installers that generated random guid for active x controls, registering those guids as a signature was pointless but they still went with it, when it was time to sell the MS guys fell for it. I worked for a company that was sold eventually and it was the same story when the founders decided that its time to sell it was all about the number of signatures.
Kasperskey are known to have a brilliant engine, this leak is a huge blow for them
On a different note: I wonder how this happened in the first place, the security companies that I worked for were pretty strict on code access, I couldn't checkout any code I wish, only a few people could pull the entire code repository.