Steganography is a means of protecting the confidentiality of data by "hiding" it within a larger file of data. This technique can be used for both legitimate and illegitimate purposes. This article will offer a brief introductory discussion of steganography: what it is, how it can be used, and the implications it can have for security.

This paper will evaluate the usefulness of using honeypots to fight Internet worms, including a discussion on capturing a worm, redirecting worm traffic to fake services, launching counter attacks to clean infected hosts, and finally removing the worm or negating its effects.

This paper will evaluate the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers on several fronts. Part one discusses the methods spammers use to harvest addresses, maintain stealth and manipulate open mail relays on the Internet. Then honeypots will be considered that create fake email addresses to be harvested, identify and track spammers, and simulate open proxies for spammers to use.

Blackhats, security researchers and network intrusion detection system (NIDS) developers have continually played a game of point-counterpoint when it comes to NIDS technology. The BlackHat community continually develops methods to evade or bypass NIDS sensors while NIDS vendors continually counter act these methods with patches and new releases. Throughout this article we will explain basic evasion techniques as well as suggest fixes or what to look for in many of these attacks.