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Monday, August 12, 2002

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'Network telescopes' spy on net attacks
Stephen Lawson

Researchers looking for more accurate information about Internet threats such as worms and DoS (denial-of-service) attacks are experimenting with a technique that looks at the Internet something like the way astronomers look at the universe. A "network telescope" operated by the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), in San Diego, has gathered statistics about DoS attacks and the 2001 Code Red and Code Red 2 worm attacks through monitoring of the traffic that hits one part of the Internet....

 


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