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Computer Attacks: What They Are and How to Defend Against Them

May 26, 1999

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Peter M. Mell

Although a host of technologies exists to detect and prevent attacks against computers, a human must coordinate responding to a successful network penetration. At the same time, the majority of systems administrators are not prepared to handle a

Understanding the Global Attack Toolkit Using a Database of Dependent Classifiers

November 5, 1998

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell

High profile Internet web sites publish a large collection of attack scripts that we call the Global Attack Toolkit (GAT). It is a dangerous tool available to the average web surfer and yet we known little about this set of attacks besides the fact that it