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You need to think like an attacker to keep your network safe. We asked security columnist Kurt Seifried for an inside look at the art of intrusion.

Spot intruders with these easy security visualization tools.

A slow death for the default configuration.

Search out hidden attacks with the Snort intrusion detection system.

Once you determine a system has been attacked, boot to the BackTrack Live forensics distro and start your investigation with Sleuth Kit.

A former intrusion specialist is training a gathering of European law enforcement agents in how the bad guys work on the Internet. Contributing editor Markus Feilner stops in for a lesson in attack techniques.

A forensics expert explains how to extract interesting details from a confiscated Windows hard disk using standard Linux tools.