Re: ForeScout ActiveScout (was: Re: Intrusion Prevention)

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:48:27PM -0500, Matthew L. McGuirl wrote:

> They "shine" because as far as I can tell, they're correlating their
> own data with their own data. This magical "mark" they stamp on the
> prober is unlikely to be more than something like a dummy username &
> password combination that gets stored in their database. When their
> IDS module sees a packet come in bearing this dummy data they can
> detect it regardless of its source IP.

just a new twist on an old idea:

http://lists.insecure.org/lists/nmap-hackers/1999/Jan-Mar/0279.html

-d.

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