Worms Could Dodge Net traps

Danse writes "ZDNet reports that future worms could evade a network of early-warning sensors hidden across the Internet unless countermeasures are taken. According to papers presented at the Usenix Security Symposium, just as surveillance cameras are sometimes hidden the locations of the Internet sensors are kept secret. From the article: 'If the set of sensors is known, a malicious attacker could avoid the sensors entirely or could overwhelm the sensors with errant data.' A team of computer scientists from the University of Wisconsin wrote up the background in their award-winning paper titled 'Mapping Internet Sensors with Probe Response Attacks.'"

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Like in Zulu!

[putko]

If you've seen Zulu!, this attack will make a lot of sense.

In the movie Zulu!, the Zulus first attack, from many different sides. Not too heavy, but from all sides.

The British guy's troops repel them, with guns. Quite a few Zulus get shot and killed.

Quite smug, the British commander asks the Boer what he thinks of it all. The Boer explains that that's a Zulu tactic: attack lightly from the various sides to draw the fire. Then the Zulus know where the guns are, where the defenses are hard, where they are soft. The Zulus aren't going anywhere, this is just the beginning. After this, the Brit looks a lot less smug.

Zulu! is a fantastic movie, by the way.