UT Dallas Researchers Hope Software Helps Develop Defenses
Against New Kinds of Attacks
UT Dallas computer scientists are trying to stay one step
ahead of cyberattackers by creating their own monster. Their monster can cloak
itself as it steals and reconfigures information in a computer program.
In part because of the potentially destructive nature of
their technology, creators have named this software system Frankenstein, after
the monster-creating scientist in author Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, or
The Modern Prometheus.