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Anatomy of an Attack: The Five Ps (O'ReillyNet)
O'ReillyNet presents
an excerpt from Managing Security with Snort & IDS Tools.
"A surprising amount of information can be gathered from information
stores on the Internet. The goal of [the probe] phase is to map out your
network and determine details about the systems on your network, permitting
the attacker to tailor an attack to exploit known vulnerabilities in the
software version running on your system, or perhaps to a configuration
error."
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