Security precogs divine web vulnerabilities BEFORE THEY EXIST

  • 22 August 2014
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Comment: This article just reinforces why Webroot app is so important in protecting against malicous web sites
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By Darren Pauli, 22 Aug 2014
 
 
Wayback is way ahead: Three million webpages are set to become hacker fodder according to research that could predict what websites will become vulnerable ahead of time.
The research by Kyle Soska and Nicolas Christin of Carnegie Mellon University used an engine which divined the future by looking at the past - more specifically, by trawling the Way Back Machine with its 391 billion stored pages for sites that had become malicious.
 It determined that of 4,916,203 current benign webpages (tied to 444,519 websites) about 3 million would become vulnerable within a year.
The work was a boon to search engines for assessing malicious hits, blacklist operators, and affected website admins who could be warned ahead of potential compromise, according to Soska and Christin.
 
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/22/security_precogs_divine_web_vulnerabilities_before_they_exist/

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