Index of Topics

1. Why is Network Security Important?
   
   • THREATS OF MASS DISRUPTION Newt Gingrich, Information Security
   • Airports in Danger Sascha Segan, ABC News
   • The Role Of Computer Security In Protecting U.S. Infrastructures U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology
   • Computer Attack and Cyberterrorism: Vulnerabilities and Policy Issues for Congress   Clay Wilson
   • Putting cyberterrorism into context  Kathryn Kerr
     
2. The Problem
   
   • NSA Blackout Reveals Downside of Secrecy Tech News
   • Online Credit Card Security Gets a Charge Tech News
   • Online Security Remains Elusive Tech News
   • Online Security Still a Mystery Tech News
   • Redesigning the Internet: Can it Be Made Less Vulnerable? Tech News
   • Hacker Assaults Expose Internet's Weaknesses John Schwartz, Ariana Eunjung Cha and David A. Vise Washington Post Staff Writers, Washington Post
   • Security Expert: E-Commerce Hacks Happen All the Time Tech News
     Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed Mark Rasch, Security Focus
     
3. All about Distributed Denial of Service Attack
   
   • DDoS: Is There Really a Threat? USENIX Security Symposium
   • The DoS Project's "trinoo" distributed denial of service attack tool  David Dittrich
   • RAZOR analysis of WinTrinoo
   • The "Tribe Flood Network" distributed denial of service attack tool David Dittrich
   • The "stacheldraht" distributed denial of service attack tool David Dittrich
   • TFN2K - An Analysis Jason Barlow and Woody Thrower, Axent Security Team
   • An analysis of the ``Shaft'' distributed denial of service tool Sven Dietrich, Neil Long, and David Dittrich
   • BUGTRAQ followup post Richard Wash
   • Analyzing Distributed Denial of Service Tools: The Shaft Case Sven Dietrich
   • The "mstream" distributed denial of service attack tool David Dittrich, George Weaver, Sven Dietrich, and Neil Long
   • CERT Distributed Intruder Tools Workshop David Dittrich
   • Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Steve Bellovin
   • NANOG ISPSec Meeting/DDoS BoF David Dittrich
   • The Interactive Nightmare  Todd Datz, CSO Magazine
   • US seeks right to wage cyberwar on whoever it likes Paul Hales, The Inquirer
   • The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace The Whitehouse
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4. Work in Progress
   
   • Industry, feds open security dialogue Margret Johnston, CNN.com
   • IP: Nation's banks create private computer security system Ted Bridis
   • Security Initiative Launched to Aid Industry Leaders and Protection of Nation's Critical Infrastructure  InfoSec
   • UK Asks Network Managers To Safeguard Nation Madeleine Acey, Tech Web
     
     

     International policy and concerns

     • IWS - The Information Warfare Site Wanja Eric Naef 
     • The Palestinian-Israeli Cyberwar Patrick Allen and Chris Demchak
     • U.S. Expecting Chinese Hack Blitz Jay Lyman, NewsFactor Network

     Critism of the threat

     • The Myth of Cyberterrorism Joshua Green
     • Cyberterrorism - Fact or Fancy? Mark Pollitt

Index of Topics - Study Guide