RE: PhD Topic suggestions

Hi there, or should i say Firdrik and Kurt as you two seem to be the only ones active :)

here is a link posted yesterday that may interest you both:
A Comparison Study of Three Worm Families and Their Propagation in a Network 
by Daniel Hanson, Bartek Kostanecki, Richard Jagodzinski, Jason V. Miller
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1752

cheers,
Will

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> >but it can just as well just mail copies of itself and rely on the
> >receivers being ignorand and/or careless.
>
> Ok. Still this is a manual security hole. If I can call someone and he
> tells me the root passwords, this is a hole too (although I am not a
> worm, at least I think so).

Well, with that definition, viruses also use a "manual security hole",
as someone has to activate the virus.  The definition of a worm only
involves replication across a network - the issue of security holes
is just not relevant.

> >>Maybe you should dig into something like Red-Code
> >
> >Do you mean CodeRed?
>
> No. I meant Redcode from Core War:
>
> http://www.tl.infi.net/~wtnewton/corewar/

Ah, thanks...

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Fridrik Skulason   Frisk Software International   phone: +354-540-7400
Author of F-PROT   E-mail: [email protected]       fax:   +354-540-7401


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