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Probe-response attacks are a new threat for collaborative intrusion detection systems. A probe is an attack which is deliberately crafted so that its target detects and reports it with a recognizable "fingerprint" in the report. The attacker then uses the collaborative infrastructure to learn the detector's location and defensive capabilities from this report.
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Shmatikov et al. (2007) studied this question.
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