Tim Bass (Timothy James Bass), an Internet security expert, invented Egress Filtering, an Internet security technique, on 21 September 1996, as a response to a Denial-of-service attack against an Internet Service Provider (ISP). He was the subject of a July 1999 article by Frank Vizard in Popular Science Magazine called WAR.COM, where Bass is credited with inventing the first countermeasure against email bombs used by hackers against Langley Air Force Base. The strategy invented by Bass in 1997 is known as the Blackhole Strategy. In April 2000, the Communications of the ACM published earlier work by Bass where he developed intrusion detection techniques. Tim now works for Tibco (June 2006).

A Brief History of UNIX.COM

In 1992 - 1993, Tim Bass was a consultant for SprintLink where he was responsible for network and security management of the SprintLink Internet backbone and the Sprint Managed Router Network (MRN) service. He was very active on Internet management related issues and was averse to the provider-based addressing Internet architecture, eventually publishing an IEEE paper on this topic, Internet Exterior Routing Protocol Development: Problems, Issues, and Misconceptions, IEEE Network Magazine, pp. 50-55, July/Aug 1997 ^*.

While consulting for Sprint, Bass registered the Unix.com domain name claiming it stood for "UNiversal Internet eXchange" not UNIX the trademark purchased by the Open Group years after UNIX.COM was registered by Bass. Unix.com has become an actively moderated commercial-free question and answer forum for Unix-like operating systems. In July 2002, The World Intellectual Property Organization decided that Bass had a legitimate interest in the use of the Unix.com domain, and therefore the Open Group could not take the Unix.com domain away from Bass ^*.

References

• Original Egress Filter Invention: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
• E-Mail Bombs and Countermeasures: Cyber Attacks on Availability and Brand Integrity by Tim Bass, et al
• Dedication is the Best Defense by Dan Verton
• Waging War.Com: A Hacker Attack against NATO Spawns a War in Cyberspace by Frank Vizard
• Intrusion Detection Systems & Multisensor Data Fusion: Creating Cyberspace Situational Awareness by Tim Bass
• Open Group's controversial dispute over UNIX domains by Tina Gasperson
• The Open Group's CEO defends domain-name dispute, calls for more openness by Grant Gross
• Unix.com Remains in the Hands of Users by Tina Gasperson

External links

• SilkRoad, Inc.
• The Unix Forums
• Tim Bass' CISSP Wiki
• Tim Bass' Profile on LinkedIn

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