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Malware (malicious software) is rampant in our information technology infrastructures and is likely to be so for the foreseeable future. We will look at various types of malware and their characteristics and see what defenses currently exist to combat them. Various aspects of ubiquitous computing will likely prove game-changers for malware and we will look into how the problem will evolve as ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) is deployed.
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Swimmer, M. (2007). Malicious Software in Ubiquitous Computing. In: Petković, M., Jonker, W. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Trust in Modern Data Management. Data-Centric Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69861-6_29
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