26 research outputs found
Government mandated blocking of foreign Web content
Blocking of foreign Web content by Internet access providers has been a hot
topic for the last 18 months in Germany. Since fall 2001 the state of
North-Rhine-Westphalia very actively tries to mandate such blocking. This paper
will take a technical view on the problems imposed by the blocking orders and
blocking content at access or network provider level in general. It will also
give some empirical data on the effects of the blocking orders to help in the
legal assessment of the orders.Comment: Preprint, revised 30.6.200
Modelling the costs and benefits of Honeynets
For many IT-security measures exact costs and benefits are not known. This
makes it difficult to allocate resources optimally to different security
measures. We present a model for costs and benefits of so called Honeynets.
This can foster informed reasoning about the deployment of honeynet technology.Comment: was presented at the "Third Annual Workshop on Economics and
Information Security" 2004 (WEIS04
NoSEBrEaK - Attacking Honeynets
It is usually assumed that Honeynets are hard to detect and that attempts to
detect or disable them can be unconditionally monitored. We scrutinize this
assumption and demonstrate a method how a host in a honeynet can be completely
controlled by an attacker without any substantial logging taking place
A comparative study of teaching forensics at a university degree level
Computer forensics is a relatively young University discipline which has developed strongly in the United States and the United Kingdom but is still in its infancy in continental Europe. The national programmes and courses offered therefore differ in many ways. We report on two recently established degree programmes from two European countries: Great Britain and Germany. We present and compare the design of both programmes and conclude that they cover two complementary and orthogonal aspects of computer forensics education: (a) rigorous practical skills and (b) competence for fundamental research discoveries