Local Company In Global Fight Against Worm
Jose Nazario, manager of security research at Arbor Networks. If Nazario were manager of marketing research, he might have given his mug another quarter turn to show off the Arbor Networks name and logo.
On Thursday morning, when The Chronicle used a front-door exploit on Arbor Networks’ State Street offices (i.e., went to visit the company), Jose Nazario made his computer screen display a steady vertical scroll of numerical strings separated with periods, one string per line, each in formats like 99.999.999.999.
The strings were recognizable as IP addresses (the numerical identification of a machine connected to the internet), but they were flying past fast enough that it wasn’t possible to visually track an individual number from the bottom of the screen to the top. That’s not surprising at 6.1 million lines per hour.
But who, exactly, is Jose Nazario, and what’s he doing with screen-upon-screen full of IP addresses?
Is this actually the work of some mysterious cabal? Why yes, it actually is – even if “mysterious” overstates the case a little, given that the work, underway a couple of months prior, was announced on Feb. 12. [Full Story]