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[fwd] SANS Security Technology Leadership Awards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Feb 10 07:27:25 2000
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From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
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A couple of useful references.
- paul
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>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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