Malware: Cat and Mouse Forever? (Nov2018)As we focus on the impact of malware upon cybersecurity, it's important that we embrace the lessons learned over the past three plus decades of malware in the wild.
History does indeed repeat itself. Cybersecurity also has the characteristics of a "cat and mouse" game, where action and reaction define a lifelong process of the battle between good and evil. A cat that has caught a mouse doesn't kill it but plays with it. The mouse may play dead for a while, and then may run, and might even get away for that day, but the saga continues between the two. Taking a look at notable malware events that have taken place over the last few decades, have we learned anything or will be playing cat and mouse with our malware adversaries forever?