Thursday, March 12, 2015

Dusting for Cyber Fingerprints: Coding Style Identifies Anonymous Programmers

From Forensic Magazine:

Dusting for Cyber Fingerprints: Coding Style Identifies Anonymous Programmers

A team of computer scientists, led by researchers from Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics, have devised as way to lift the veil of anonymity protecting cyber criminals by turning their malicious code against them. Their method uses a parsing program to break down lines of code, like an English teacher diagramming a sentence, and then another program captures distinctive patterns that can be used to identify its author.

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