Sorry, it's late: I meant to say fixed sized pieces. It doesn't just look at one stretch of sequence.

It's definitely not a new technique. It's purpose in bioinformatics is sequence comparisons. It calculates the mean and standard deviation of a fixed size piece of the sequence. It lends itself very well toward malware analysis.

There may be cases where a single "species" of bacteria has a varying rate of horizontal transfer based on its host species. It may have more exposure to a different species of bacteria that it is able to trade genes with because that other species is exclusive to one of the two hosts rather than both. In cases like these, you could name each by its code. I think the ultimate goal is to make clear naming distinctions that reflect actual differences in populations of organisms.

I think you''re mostly correct, except for the case of organisms with horizontal gene transfer such as bacteria and archaea. The current naming convention breaks down when it is applied to this type of organism.

Last month, at ShmooCon a talk was given about spatial analysis of malware samples. The technique is borrowed directly from bioinformatics. This is a great example of techniques from Biology being used effectively in the IT security realm.

I hope that the researcher involved in naming organisms based on hash algorithms chooses context triggered piecewise hashes (CTPH) AKA fuzzy hashing or a similarity hash algorithm rather than an algorithm like SHA512. Google's simhash or at least the ideas of this type of algorithm would lend itself much better to the naming of organisms.

FYI: a FOSS implementation of fussy hashing is called ssdeep. The project site is here. This is an implementation that is widely used in open source malware analysis tools like Cuckoo Sandbox.

I enjoy the god-in-the-gaps argument. If this holds true, the more discoveries made, the smaller the gaps and therefore the smaller the god gets.

Didn't some Snowden documents reveal that slashdot was used as an NSA vector to spread malware?

This just in, Anonymous Coward points to Godwin's Law when examining Tony Perkins's op-ed.

Data expands to fill the space available. It doesn't matter what the super fast super large digital thing is this year, at some point it will feel slow and old. Remember 10Mbit ethernet? That was TEN times as fast as 1Mbit!!!!!! It GIFs loaded instantly from your fileserver compared to waiting for them to load on dialup.

http://noetic.org/discussions/open/227/ ??

Which host OS are you using?

I'm curious as to whether or not SeaBIOS can be integrated into VirtualBox rather than using the watcom bios. This is the BIOS that is utilized by KVM/QEMU and therefore most OpenStack implementation that I've used have SeaBIOS.

I've never run into the problems that you're referring to. Are you using a current stable version?

Where is the grade for VirtualBox. As opposed to the others on the list, I would give them an A+ for their stewardship of VirtualBox so far. They have released regular updates and bugfixes. I have run into zero problems running Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows in VMs. The UI has gradually improved. The project is still open source, and they actually provide binaries for every major OS.

Yep. Article is incorrect about Netflix running its infrastructure on Linux. It is running it on FreeBSD.