Researchers Develop Worm-Stopping Algorithm

Penn State University researchers have developed an algorithm to protect networks from worms.

"Worms will often spread quickly inside an organization by scanning ports to find machines that they can infect," according to InfoSecurity. "This enables them to infect large numbers of machines in a small space of time, especially when those machines are clustered together. The more contactable machines that exist on that network, the bigger the potential infection base and the broader the scope of the attack."

"The algorithm... quarantines the worm and then segments the network into a number of much smaller networks, thus limiting the spread of the worm," the article states.

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