Tom Liston is the founder and owner of the
Johnsburg,_Illinois
Johnsburg is a village in McHenry County, Illinois, McHenry County, Illinois, with a population of 6,355 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census.
History
The area that came to be known as Johnsburg was first settled in 1841, five y ...
-based network security consulting firm, Bad Wolf Security.
He is the author of the first
network tarpit, the
open source
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LaBrea. He was a finalist for eWeek and PC Magazine’s "Innovations In Infrastructure" (i3) award in 2002 for LaBrea. He is one of the handlers at the SANS Institute’s
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, where he deals with developing security issues and authors a series of articles under the title “Follow the Bouncing
Malware
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.”
Liston is also, with Ed Skoudis, co-author of the second edition of the network security book ''Counter Hack Reloaded: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses''.
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