CTO Roundtable: Malware Defense Overview
Mache Creeger · Queue · 2010
The Internet has enabled malware to progress to a much broader distribution model and is experiencing a huge explosion of individual threats. There are automated tools that find vulnerable sites, attack them, and turn them into distribution sites. As commerce and the business of daily living migrate online, attacks to leverage information assets for ill-gotten benefit have increased dramatically. Security professionals are seeing more sophisticated and innovative profit models on par with business models seen in the legitimate world.