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Experience suggests that many administrators and managers with excellent technical knowledge in mainstream security (network security, firewall, encryption, and so on) are less familiar with the issues of cyber stalking, and have been subjected to the popular misconceptions generated by the media and those same consumer-level sources. Issues that seem to have comparatively little relevance to security in the marketplace have a habit of sneaking in through unexpected crannies. When they do so, they can have serious knock-on effects on the enterprise’s business processes. This chapter deals with the thorny issue of malware nomenclature by Ken Bechtel and describes David Harley’s historical look at how people got here, before expanding on some of the (mostly) malware-related problems they face today (rootkits, spam, phishing, muledriving, hoaxes). It is a superficial tour around the malware scene. The issues discussed in this chapter are common topics for discussion in the Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network (AVIEN) and the Anti-Virus Information and Early Warning System (AVIEWS). However, the fact that these organizations include a number of individuals with considerable specialized expertise suggests a strong likelihood that a future publishing project will go much farther into the areas that are only briefly touched upon in this chapter. |
