Cyber-Security Pros Create “Frankenstein” Monster Peter Suciu
for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It’s alive! Well, not
quite, but UT Dallas computer scientists have created a new
software that helps develop defense against new kinds of
attacks, and in essence it is a monster of sorts. The UT Dallas
team, headed by Dr. Kevin Hamlen, associate professor of
computer science, created software that can cloak itself as it
steals and reconfigures information in a computer program. But
Hamlen and doctoral student Vishwath Mohan didn’t create this
software with criminal intention. Instead the software was
designed as a way to stay ahead of cyber attacks by essentially
being able to act like its own cyber threat. The result is a
software program “Frankenstein” – named because of the
potentially destructive nature of this technology, which is in
keeping with the monster-creating scientist in Mary Shelley’s
1818 novel Frankenstein (also known as The Modern Prometheus).
“Shelley’s story is an example of a horror that