http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/07/from-elk-to-peacomm-a-quarter-century-of-malware/ A weblog dedicated to educating the community on security threats that matter Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:21:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/07/from-elk-to-peacomm-a-quarter-century-of-malware/comment-page-1/#comment-174753 Week’s Links | lonerunners.net Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:11:28 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/07/from-elk-to-peacomm-a-quarter-century-of-malware/#comment-174753 [...] From Elk Cloner to Peacomm: A quarter century of malware [...] [...] From Elk Cloner to Peacomm: A quarter century of malware [...]

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]]> http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/07/from-elk-to-peacomm-a-quarter-century-of-malware/comment-page-1/#comment-36797 www.andrewhay.ca » Suggested Blog Reading - Wednesday July 18th, 2007 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:14:00 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/07/from-elk-to-peacomm-a-quarter-century-of-malware/#comment-36797 [...] From Elk Cloner to Peacomm: A quarter century of malware - Good article here on maleware. A quarter century of malware. You’d think we would have had this problem licked by now, yeah? No, not even close. Self replicating code was first theorized in 1949, the dawn of the computing age, and appeared in the wild around the early 1980s. The fundamental theories on computer viruses were worked out by Fred Cohen; you can read his original paper online from the early 1980s. The tension between usability and security is directly discussed in this seminal paper. From the paper’s ending, “To quickly summarize, absolute protection can be easily attained by absolute isolationism, but that is usually an unacceptable solution. Other forms of protection all seem to depend on the use of extremely complex and/or resource intensive analytical techniques, or imprecise solutions that tend to make systems less usable with time.” In fact, because of the nature of a general purpose computer, Cohen points out, you can never fully protect against viruses. [...] [...] From Elk Cloner to Peacomm: A quarter century of malware – Good article here on maleware. A quarter century of malware. You’d think we would have had this problem licked by now, yeah? No, not even close. Self replicating code was first theorized in 1949, the dawn of the computing age, and appeared in the wild around the early 1980s. The fundamental theories on computer viruses were worked out by Fred Cohen; you can read his original paper online from the early 1980s. The tension between usability and security is directly discussed in this seminal paper. From the paper’s ending, “To quickly summarize, absolute protection can be easily attained by absolute isolationism, but that is usually an unacceptable solution. Other forms of protection all seem to depend on the use of extremely complex and/or resource intensive analytical techniques, or imprecise solutions that tend to make systems less usable with time.” In fact, because of the nature of a general purpose computer, Cohen points out, you can never fully protect against viruses. [...]

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