Chapter 22. Increasing Security in IP Networks

Edited by Thomas M. Thomas II

It is summertime in the not too distant future; the children are out of school, and as highways and airports fill with vacationers off to holiday destinations, unexplained power outages hit sections of the United States. Airliners begin mysteriously disappearing from and reappearing on air traffic control systems, causing panic in many airports.

Rumors of the new "Rosebud" virus fill Internet chat rooms. Even as the chat rooms are announcing the virus'presence, system administrators are trying to cope with this new Melissa-like virus. The virus, in addition to infecting e-mail, also attaches itself to Web browsers, speeding its spread as it begins denial of service activities ...

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