New Focus-IDS Focus Area Article

["Jason V. Miller" <jmiller () securityfocus com>]

List Members,

The following Focus-IDS Focus Area article was recently published on the
SecurityFocus site, and may be of interest to list readers.


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

Regards,

-- 
Jason V. Miller, Threat Analyst
Symantec, Inc. - www.symantec.com
E-Mail: jmiller () securityfocus com

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