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A Cheap, Distributed Zero-Day Defense?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-that-won't-get-gamed dept.

coondoggie writes "Shutting down zero-day computer attacks could be carried out inexpensively by peer-to-peer software that shares information about anomalous behavior, say researchers at the University of California at Davis.The software would interact with existing personal firewalls and intrusion detection systems to gather data about anomalous behavior, says Senthil Cheetancheri, the lead researcher on the project he undertook as a grad student at UC Davis from 2004 to 2007. He now works for SonicWall."

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  1. What to tell your boss by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I'm not pirating movies... I'm protecting the network!"

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  2. Re:Not so fast... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    You make it sound suspiciously like "Windows Update," which doesn't have these problems...oh wait....nevermind.

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  3. Re:A Cheap, Distributed Zero-Day Defense? by Lord+Ender · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you misread "Cheap, Distrubted Zero-Day Defense" as "expensive, ineffective, and slow defense."

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