MIT Researcher 'Paints' Cyber Threats

April 10th, 2008 in Technology / Computer Sciences
MIT Researcher 'Paints' Cyber Threats (AP)

In this photo provided by MessageLabs, Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu's visual representation of the "russian3" spam file is shown. Dragulescu was commissioned by MessageLabs, a computer security company, to artistically render computer spam, viruses and other cyber threats into a computational 3-D form. (AP Photo/ MessageLabs, Alex Dragulescu)

(AP) -- Cyber threats like NetSky, Mydoom and Parite are the bane of IT departments around the globe, but artist Alex Dragulescu has found subtle beauty deep within the dangerous computer code that can bring down networks and bombard e-mail inboxes with murderous spam.

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