Brews you can use

I’ve added a few computer-related links to the blogroll.  The newest (to me) one is honeyblog, a blog all about honeypots, malware detection.  Real fun stuff, in other words.  Reading back a few weeks turns up an interesting post about some software which can detect malware before the AV companies can come up with a signature.  It’s a modified version of the PC emulator qemu which monitors the code it’s running to see if any outside input is executed or passed as arguments to system calls.

Unfortunately, the technique is dubbed “dynamic taint analysis”, making it nearly impossible to read about without giggling.  Grr…

This entry was posted on Monday, April 3rd, 2006 at 10:15 pm and is filed under Computers & Internet.