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Using Honeypots to Fight Worms

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-hates-them-tony dept.

scubacuda writes "Laurent Oudout, an active member of the French Honeynet Project (part of the Honeynet Alliance), has written a paper evaluating the usefulness of using honeypots in fighting Internet worms. (Imagine a well-constructed honeypot framework capturing a worm, redirecting worm traffic to fake services, and launching counter attacks to clean infected hosts!)"

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  1. Re:Sun Cobalt an m$ windoze by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    May be, but you are the anonymouse coward.

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  2. Re:Honeypots by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Throught Asia, honeypots are used to store 'nightsoil.

    I throught you make a good point.

  3. Re:French Honeypots... by Tonytheloony · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Coming from an anonymous coward! Oh the irony! ;)

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  4. You know You've been reading too much /. when... by Mr.+Moose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You see
    Imagine a well-constructed honeypot framework...

    and read it as
    Imagine a Beowulf cluster...