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Florida Tech Grant Funds Hacker Attack Models
Melbourne, Fl - Jan 21, 2004 Blaster, Slammer and Code Red. These Internet worms in the past year have cost billions of dollars in damage after causing software engineers worldwide to scramble to stop them. Such worms, computer viruses and hacker-introduced program bugs are the targets of Florida Tech researchers who recently received a $70,000 Air Force Research Laboratory grant to model all possible hacker exploits. "Modeling is something new," said Dr. James Whittaker, Florida Tech professor of software engineering and grant recipient. "The focus so far has been to stop these attacks rather than understand the adversaries. Since we can't defend what we don't know about, we need to learn more about the methods of the bad guys." Whittaker is marshalling the "good guys" to understand the "bad guys." He and his team of software and computer engineers, graduate and undergraduate students, hope the models they create will lead to new testing methods and defensive techniques against hackers. "We hope to break the cycle of the cat and mouse games that we play with hackers," said Whittaker. Whittaker was one of 10 international computer scientists invited to join Microsoft Corporation's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. The board formed in February 2003. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Florida Institute of Technology SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Cyberwar - Internet Security News - Systems and Policy Issues
US Military Mounts International Psyops Campaign
Washington (AFP) Dec 14, 2005The US military is mounting a 300 million dollar psychological operations campaign to sway international opinion of the US war on terrorism through messages placed in foreign media, officials said Wednesday. |
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