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SecurityFocus new article announcements
From: Kelly Martin <kel () securityfocus com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:06:00 -0700 (MST)
The following articles were recently published on SecurityFocus: 1. Fighting Spammers With Honeypots: Part 1 By Laurent Oudot Nov 26, 2003 This paper will evaluate the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers on several fronts. Part one discusses the methods spammers use to harvest addresses, maintain stealth and manipulate open mail relays on the Internet. Then honeypots will be considered that create fake email addresses to be harvested, identify and track spammers, and simulate open proxies for spammers to use. http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1747 2. Fighting Spammers With Honeypots: Part 2 By Laurent Oudot Nov 26, 2003 Part two continues the discussion of open proxies, describes creating fake open mail relays with various honeypots, discusses architecture decisions, and then provides some recent test results that proved very successful. A honeypot can clearly be used to detect, slow and stop spam-related activities while promoting a clean Internet -- but more people must pitch in for them to truly make a difference. http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1748 3. Busting the Worm Writers By Tim Mullen (SF columnist) Nov 24, 2003 Microsoft deserves praise for offering a cash reward to catch people who criminally exploit their bugs. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/199 -- Kelly Martin SecurityFocus kel () securityfocus com +001-403-261-5468 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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