A couple of useful references. - paul [snip]

Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:15:40 -0700 (MST) From: The SANS Institute <sans@sans.org> Subject: SANS NewsBites Vol. 2 Num. 6

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Congratulations to the winners of this year's SANS Security Technology Leadership Awards:

Dave Dittrich of the University of Washington and Marcus Ranum of Network Flight Recorder for developing and distributing a network scanner that finds trin00 and other distributed denial of service attack tools. http://www.staff.washington.edu/dittrich

Eric Kayden of MITRE and Steve Schmidt of the National Infrastructure Protection Center and their teams for developing and distributing a system scanner that searches for trin00 and other distributed denial of service attack tools. http://www.fbi.gov/nipc/trinoo.htm

John Green of the Naval Surface Warfare Center and Laurie Zirkle of Virginia Tech University for creation of the document, "Handling A Distributed Denial of Service Trojan Infection: Step-by-Step." http://www.sans.org/y2k/DDoS.htm

Robert Stone and Mark Krause and their team at UUNET for developing CenterTrack, the tool that Internet Service Providers will use to find the source of forged IP packets employed in distributed denial of service attacks. http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9910/robert.html

Steve Christey, Dave Mann, Mary Zuk, Pete Tasker, and the staff at MITRE for establishing, nurturing, and sustaining the industry-wide cooperative CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) project that enables accurate comparisons of vulnerability analysis tools and summaries. http://cve.mitre.org/

The awards, including plaques and financial stipends will be presented on March 24 at SANS2000 in Orlando.

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