Linux in the Time of Malware

Malware Cover
Topic
Security

The malware threat landscape is expanding continuously, and in the past 30 years since the appearance of the first virus, the number of security events (and their associated financial losses) has continued to grow at an exponential rate, with millions of such events per month. These numbers support a somewhat fatalistic opinion that says there are only two kinds of systems: those that already have been attacked and those that will be attacked.