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RE: How to choose an IDS/FW MSS provider

Subject: RE: How to choose an IDS/FW MSS provider
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:46:51 -0800
David Goodrum wrote:

And yes, 
it's possible 
to compromise systems that are simply sniffing... but it's 
much harder.  
I know of only one product that's been successfully remotely 
exploited 
in this manner, and the only reason that happened was because 
it was an 
opensource product that allows hackers to read the source 
code and look 
for ways to compromise it.

Mmmm.  The Witty worm last year compromised ISS deployments in this manner.

Stuart.

Stuart Staniford, Principal Scientist
Nevis Networks
stuart@nevisnetworks.com
408-327-4652


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