Submission + - The naming of the "Ice IX" banking trojan (internetsecuritydb.com)
AlexDomo writes: The naming of the new Ice IX banking trojan is quite interesting; there are a number of sources from which the developer could have been inspired to name the new trojan Ice IX. I've listed these in order from "most likely" to "least likely" to have been the inspiration.
1. Ice 9 is a fictional computer virus from the film "The Recruit" (2003) which could erase hard drives and travel through unprotected power sources; possibly erasing data from every computer on Earth.
2. Ice 9 is an album by Russian rock band Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii, two songs from which won the Russian Golden Gramophone award twice. The band's name loosley translated means "glitches in your brain".
3. ICE is a well known cyberpunk reference to "Intrusion Countermeasures Electonics" — software which works to prevent hackers getting access to sensitive data.
4. In cryptography, ICE (Information Concealment Engine) is a block cipher published by Kwan in 1997. The ICE algorithm is not subject to patents, and the source code is in the public domain.
These are just the top four... eight additional references are listed in the original article here.
1. Ice 9 is a fictional computer virus from the film "The Recruit" (2003) which could erase hard drives and travel through unprotected power sources; possibly erasing data from every computer on Earth.
2. Ice 9 is an album by Russian rock band Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii, two songs from which won the Russian Golden Gramophone award twice. The band's name loosley translated means "glitches in your brain".
3. ICE is a well known cyberpunk reference to "Intrusion Countermeasures Electonics" — software which works to prevent hackers getting access to sensitive data.
4. In cryptography, ICE (Information Concealment Engine) is a block cipher published by Kwan in 1997. The ICE algorithm is not subject to patents, and the source code is in the public domain.
These are just the top four... eight additional references are listed in the original article here.
