New Articles on SecurityFocus

From: Hal Flynn (flynn_at_securityfocus.com)
Date: 10/24/03

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    The following new articles were recently published on SecurityFocus:

    1. Fighting Internet Worms With Honeypots
    By Laurent Oudot Oct 23, 2003 (Infocus feature article)

    This paper will evaluate the usefulness of using honeypots to fight
    Internet worms, including a discussion on capturing a worm,
    redirecting worm traffic to fake services, launching counter
    attacks to clean infected hosts, and finally removing the worm or
    negating its effects.

    http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1740

    2. Joe Average User Is In Trouble
    By Scott Granneman Oct 22 2003

    As security professionals we're at the forefront, like it or not,
    and it's up to us to help lessen the myriad of user problems we see
    around us.
    http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/193 

    -- 
Hal Flynn
Symantec Corp.
http://www.securityfocus.com/unix
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