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MIT Working On Network Vulnerability Analysis

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at MIT have created a method for analyzing networks to detect exploitable vulnerabilities using attack graph analysis which can be done in near real time. The new Lincoln Labs tool will allow admins of large... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Fri, Aug 29 2008

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