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Thursday, May 09, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52342,00.html A Challenge to Dissect Some Code Michelle Delio Systems administrators have to stop thinking like glorified janitors. Cleaning malicious code from a system as quickly as possible should never be an administrator's primary goal, security experts agree. Administrators should instead focus on carefully dissecting malicious program code and preserving the evidence of attacks. Peering deeply into the guts of the malevolent mystery code that sometimes shows up on networks is an approach strongly advocated by the Honeynet Project, a group of top security experts who try to find some semblance of order in the chaos of cybercrime. To encourage the careful dissection of malicious program code, the Honeynet Project has issued a challenge to anyone who cares to participate: Download a chunk of unusual code that appeared one day on one of the Honeynet Project's servers, rip it apart and see how it works....
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