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Trends in network operator security

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Wed Jan 08 16:15:04 2003 
Its 2003 and everyone is making their predictions.  What trends are
network operators seeing for Internet security?

Old favorites
   Buffer overflows
   Distributed Denial of Service
   Poor passwords (cisco/sanfran)
   Poorly coded systems
   Blame the user for not protecting poorly coded systems

Trends
   Attack the network (why? because we can)
   Proxy relay hiding (its not just for SMTP anymore)
   Combo Bot/Trojan/Worms
   Embedded software "upgrades"

Any other trends network operators are seeing?