Bill Cheswick On Internet Security

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @07:34AM from the man-with-the-maps dept.

Franki3 invites our attention to a SecurityFocus interview with Bill Cheswick. He started the Internet Mapping Project in the 90s; you have probably seen the maps that resulted. The interview ranges over firewalling, logging, NIDS and IPS, how to fight DDoS, and the future of BGP and DNS. From the interview: "I have been impressed with the response of the network community. These problems, and others like security weaknesses, security exploits, etc., usually get dealt with in a few days. For example, the SYN packet DOS attacks in 1996 quickly brought together ad hoc teams of experts, and within a week, patches with new mitigations were appearing from the vendors. You can take the Internet down, but probably not for very long."

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The only safe 'puter.. by jo42 · 2007-01-23 08:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

..is one that isn't connected to the Internets...
kno fair! by maggard · 2007-01-23 08:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I red ur site because itz rad & mewanna soo bad to know about all of the crazy kewl hacks!!! But u kep riting in leet code I donno plez tell m3 what this codes mean NIDS IPS BGP DNS SYN + what du DDOS n DOS haveta du whichothr?
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