Net worms could wriggle around warning systems

02:55 - Saturday 6 August 2005 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: net, worms, could, wriggle, around, warning, systems Category : Miscellaneous

Computer worms may soon wriggle around the early warning systems that detect an impending attack, a study by US scientists has revealed.

John Bethencourt and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin in Madison discovered that carefully probing network addresses can reveal the location of hidden sensor networks that alert network operators to an impending attack.

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