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Lessons from a Post-Blaster, Post-Welchia, Post-Nachi, Post Mortem

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Picking at a Virus-Ridden Corpse:
Lessons from a Post-Blaster, Post-Welchia, Post-Nachi, Post Mortem

9/17/2003


If your network backbone isn't instrumented in a way that will let you detect attacks and compromised systems, maybe it's time to rethink that. You can't run a network blind. Well, you can, but those who do were among those who suffered the most. Here are a couple of links to sites that can help you learn more about network intrusion detection:

http://www.snort.org target
http://www.icir.org/vern/bro.html

We’ll hear more from J'e next week, including: how everyone’s a system admin, but few do it well; how no one *really* takes security seriously . . . yet; why we have to bite the bullet and license antiviral software for students, too; and more.

Note: I guess it was the "worst of times," because I attributed the Charles Dickens; quote in last week’s Opinion to Ernest Hemingway. Mea culpa. Be assured that I do know the difference, having read nearly everything either of them ever wrote, but I have had Hemingway on my mind a lot lately, and my fingers just typed the wrong name in.


Joe St Sauver, Ph.D. (joe@oregon.uoregon.edu) is the director of user services and network applications at the University of Oregon Computing Center.

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, Joe St Sauver, "Picking at a Virus-Ridden Corpse:
Lessons from a Post-Blaster, Post-Welchia, Post-Nachi, Post Mortem,"
Campus Technology, 9/17/2003, http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=39497

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