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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2005
Manuel Costa, Cambridge, GB;
Miguel Castro, Cambridge, GB;
Antony Rowstron, Cambridge, GB;
Jon Crowcroft, London, GB;
Manuel Costa, Cambridge, GB;
Miguel Castro, Cambridge, GB;
Antony Rowstron, Cambridge, GB;
Jon Crowcroft, London, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the invention is a vulnerability detection mechanism that can detect a large class of attacks through dynamic dataflow analysis. Another aspect of the invention includes self-certifying alerts as the basis for safely sharing knowledge about worms. Another aspect of the invention is a resilient and self-organizing protocol to propagate alerts to all non-infected nodes in a timely fashion, even when under active attack during a worm outbreak. Another aspect of the invention is a system architecture that enables a large number of mutually untrusting computers to collaborate in the task of stopping a previously unknown worm, even when the worm is spreading rapidly and exploiting unknown vulnerabilities in popular software packages.