Malware: Fighting Malicious Code

What To Expect

Throughout this book, we'll use a few standard pictures and phrases to refer to recurring ideas. As we're discussing various attacks against computer systems, we'll show the attack using illustrations. For any figure in this book where we need to differentiate between the attacking system and the victim machine, we'll illustrate the attacking machine with a black hat, as shown in Figure 1.2. That way, you'll be able to quickly determine where the bad guy sits in the overall architecture of the attack.

Figure 1.2. In this book, the attacker's machines are illustrated with a black hat.

Additionally, when referring to the perpetrators ...