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CERT Pushes for Standard Malware Names
Newsfactor Network is reporting that CERT Pushes for Standard Malware Names
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has kicked off an initiative to create common names for Internet worms and threats.
The Common Malware Enumeration (CME) initiative aims to reduce confusion with the general public that is caused by disparate naming schemes for Internet threats.
A recent worm that used a known vulnerability in the Windows operating system, for instance, was referred to as Zotob.E by Symantec, W32/IRCbot.worm!MS05-039
Currently, Internet worms are often named using information about the virus or follow a description the author entered when crafting the malware. The new naming scheme uses a CME-number, with the first virus being called CME-1 and so forth.
Posted October 07, 2005 in LogLogic News | Permalink
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