Wednesday, October 26, 2005

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Virus outbreak protection: Network-based detection
This article suggests an alternative approach to complement to existing virus outbreak protection methods - pre-emptive mass outbreak detection.Virus Bulletin, Features - Oren Drori - March 2005
Black Perl
Perl/Santy is, essentially, a small piece of Perl code that spreads to vulnerable web servers located using the Google search engine. Frédéric Perriot describes Santy's unusual replication strategy and explains why this worm exemplifies the need for the 'defence in depth' approach. Virus Bulletin, Virus analysis - Frédéric Perriot - March 2005
The new backdoors: IM and P2P networks
A security expert once told Dan Schrader that Yahoo! Instant Messenger was nothing more than a port scanner with an application attached - he laughed, but fears that the expert was in fact right.

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