California Scientists Wage Joint War on Internet Plagues

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Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego and the International Computer Science Institute, affiliated with UC Berkeley, have joined forces to launch a full-scale assault on viruses, worms and other plagues afflicting the Internet. With $6.2 million in funding over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its new Cyber Trust program, the scientists will develop technologies to detect, analyze and defend against large-scale Internet attacks.


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