, 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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And the idea is not new.
Can you imagine benign worms propagating in corporate infrastructure?
What this proposal lacks, is an RFC status. Don't know why, but it reminds me of works such as the "The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header (Evil Bit)" [RFC 3514]......
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