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RE: To diversify and survive: the application of population biolo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ballowe, Charles)
Mon Feb 3 17:42:52 2003
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From: "Ballowe, Charles" <CBallowe@usg.com>
To: "'Peter Huang'" <yinrong@rogers.com>, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:04:51 -0600
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The concept of diversity in computer systems is nothing new. There
are plenty of papers on the subject available, one is at:
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~immsec/publications/hotos-97.pdf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Huang [mailto:yinrong@rogers.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:06 PM
> To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
> Subject: To diversify and survive: the application of
> population biology
> concept into computer
>
>
>
>
> Abstract:
>
> On January 25, 2003, the SQL Slammer worm
> (w2.SQLSlammer.worm), also known
>
> as Sapphire (F-Secure), w32.SQLexp.worm (Symantec), and Helkern
>
> (Kaspersky) fully exploited known vulnerabilities in
> Microsoft SQL 2000
>
> servers and caused tremendous network jam around the world. In this
>
> article, the concept of population biology is proposed to
> apply to the
>
> computer programming. The concept is to diversify the same software
>
> functionality with a population of executables to avoid being
> eliminated
>
> or exploited by a virus or worm like SQL Slammer.
>
