Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
June 1, 2011 04:05 pm

Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior

wiredmikey writes "Researchers from universities and national laboratories in the United States are developing software that mimics ant behavior, as a new approach to network security."The concept has been around for a while, but this summer researchers are working to train the "digital ants" well enough that they can turn them loose into the power grid to seek out computer viruses trying to wreak havoc on the system.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/obSc289YUfA/Modeling-Security-Software-To-Mimic-Ant-Behavior

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Slashdot

Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..

More About this Source Visit Slashdot