Article Announcement: Slow Down Internet Worms With Tarpits

From: Marc Fossi (mfossi_at_securityfocus.com)
Date: 08/21/03

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    Slow Down Internet Worms With Tarpits
    By Tony Bautts Aug 21, 2003

    This timely article discusses how to slow the spread of Internet worms
    using a tarpit and IPtables on Linux. A similar approach could potenially
    be used with tarpits on Windows platforms, Solaris, OpenBSD, and others.

    http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1723

    Marc Fossi
    Symantec Corp.
    www.symantec.com

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