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Taiwan's NCHC launches free malware database

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Sharath Kumar
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Taiwan's National Centre for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) has launched what it claims to be the world's first free malware database designed to help businesses, academics and researchers better identify and defend against criminally-coded attacks.

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The centre, one of the 11 which comprise Taiwan's National Applied Research Laboratories, teamed up with the Ministry of Education and 20 universities back in 2010 to kick off the ambitious project, according to the country's Central News Agency (CNA).

Some 200,000 malware samples have apparently been added to the database so far, with over 1,000 added every month. The Malware Knowledge Base, features 6,000 IP addresses to monitor and identify new malware strains, the agency said.

Malware sources and global attack patterns can also be traced and predicted with a handy Google Earth-based UI, an NCHC official told Taiwan Today.

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