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FYI…
- http://www.techweb.com/article/printableAr…_section=700028
October 06, 2005
"A standardized naming process for worms and viruses sponsored by the US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) and backed by the biggest names in security debuted Wednesday in the hope that it will lend some sense to the malware naming mess. Dubbed CME (Common Malware Enumeration), the scheme assigns unique identifiers to threats so that end-users – both consumers and IT security managers – have a single point of reference for a worm or virus. Although there is some cooperation between security companies and agencies in naming threats, in many cases, vendors end up assigning different labels for the same piece of malicious code… Wednesday was a perfect example; the newest Sober variant was tagged as Sober.q (Symantec), Sober.r (McAfee), Sober.s (F-Secure), and Sober.o (Sophos). The CME identifier for all, however, is simply "CME-151"…"
- http://cme.mitre.org/data/list.html
- http://www.techweb.com/article/printableAr…_section=700028
October 06, 2005
"A standardized naming process for worms and viruses sponsored by the US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) and backed by the biggest names in security debuted Wednesday in the hope that it will lend some sense to the malware naming mess. Dubbed CME (Common Malware Enumeration), the scheme assigns unique identifiers to threats so that end-users – both consumers and IT security managers – have a single point of reference for a worm or virus. Although there is some cooperation between security companies and agencies in naming threats, in many cases, vendors end up assigning different labels for the same piece of malicious code… Wednesday was a perfect example; the newest Sober variant was tagged as Sober.q (Symantec), Sober.r (McAfee), Sober.s (F-Secure), and Sober.o (Sophos). The CME identifier for all, however, is simply "CME-151"…"
- http://cme.mitre.org/data/list.html