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Good worms back on the agenda
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-27

ARLINGTON, Virginia -- A researcher has reopened the subject of beneficial worms, arguing that the capabilities of self-spreading code could perform better penetration testing inside networks, turning vulnerable systems into distributed scanners.

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Good worms back on the agenda 2006-01-29
Anonymous
This is such a bad idea I've a hard time coming up with adjectives for it. Just a couple of the problems:

- How do you deal with bugs in the code that keeps it confined to a given network, or the code to shut it down? Bugs in either of those places could give you a worm that'll propagate across t...

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