We’ve just added my paper “The Game of the Name: Malware Naming, Shape Shifters and Sympathetic Magic” to the White Papers page. This paper follows up on “A Dose By Any Other Name“, which Pierre-Marc and I presented at Virus Bulletin last year and goes some way towards explaining (I hope…) why sample glut and proactive
Somewhere back in the Dark Ages, I wrote some articles for Computer Weekly in the UK, as part of a series of articles called Security Zone. This is a regular series where the contributors are all members of (ISC)2, the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium*. Some of those articles are accessible from the Computer
I’ve just returned from Canterbury in the UK. One of the reasons I was there was to present a paper on malware naming at CFET 2009 (3rd International Conference on Cybercrime Forensics Education & Training). It was an excellent conference, and I’ll have more to say about that later (and the paper will be available shortly
