November 2003
Beginner to intermediate
672 pages
18h 40m
English
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Scenario 2: Invasion of the Kernel Snatchers
It had all started last Thursday. Miles Burnile, head of the computer incident response team for SantaMira Corporation, had just returned from a week-long information security conference. He had enjoyed the training, but didn't pay very much attention in class. The instructor was a bit quirky, frequently using bizarre and obscure movie references to hammer home a point. As he strolled into his office, Miles received an urgent call from Ed Ministrator, one of the company's best system administrators. Ed was in charge of managing several of SantaMira's most important systems, including several crucial internal Web servers.
“What's wrong?” questioned Miles.
“I think there's a problem with one of our main ...