Virus Bulletin References

Here's the references for, and some further information about, my commentary article in the June 2005 Virus Bulletin.

• The Clarke quote only appears in the revised edition of Profiles of the Future, Harper & Row, 1973, p. 21.
• One mobile phone worm (although there are others) is Cabir.
• The PDF worm I refer to is Peachy.
• The Sims 2 behavior is described in K. Poulsen, "Sims 2 hacks spread like viruses", SecurityFocus News, 6 Jan 2005, http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10232.
• Several articles about the Internet worm, a.k.a. the Morris worm, can be found in the June 1989 issue of Communications of the ACM.
• Szor and Perriot have a good analysis of Slammer: "Slamdunk", Virus Bulletin, March 2003, pp. 6-7.
• LG has an Internet fridge currently; it appears that Whirlpool tried one several years ago as well.
• As I finished up this article, I ran across a related paper: G. McGraw, "On bricks and walls: Why building secure software is hard", Computers & Security 21(3), 2002, pp. 229-238. He makes some of the same points, and I used his example of extensible systems.

My thanks to Shannon Jaeger and Mike Zastre for reading and commenting on this article, and to Helen Martin for her expert editing.