Abstmct-The deployment of low·interaction honeypots used mainly as deception tools has become more and more common these days. Another interesting but more resource and time consuming playground is made available thanks to high interaction honeypots where a blackhat can connect to the system and download, install and execute his own tools in a less con strained environment.Once catched in the honeypot, the black hat leaves many fingerprints behind him: network (information gathering scans, IRC chats, mail, etc) and system activity (what he did on the system, which tools he used, etc). The aim of honeypot forensics is to identify these fingerprints as part of the evidence gathering process.We present a methodology that will help the analyst to achieve this goal. The first step is to analyze the honeypot's ingress and egress network traffic. The second one is to took at the actions performed by the blackhat and the tools he used on the honeypot. The next step is to correlate these data: network and system events are joined to identify com mon events or patterns, and also to highlight unexplained items and focus on them.
Background
Elevated intrascrotal temperature has been suggested as a risk factor for testicular cancer, which is the most common neoplasm among young men. Varicocoele was linked to increased intrascrotal temperature, but whether it is associated with testicular cancer is unclear.
Objective
To explore the possible association between varicocoele at adolescence and the incidence of testicular cancer at adulthood.
Design, setting, and participants
This nationwide, population‐based, historical cohort study includes 1,521,661 Israeli male adolescents (mean age 17.5 ± 0.4 years), who were screened for varicocoele during the years 1967–2012, as part of their medical assessment prior to compulsory military service. The mean follow‐up was 18 ± 4.2 years.
Outcome measurements and statistical analysis
The diagnosis of testicular cancer was ascertained from linkage of records to the the Israeli National Cancer Registry. Survival analysis was applied.
Results
In total, 53,210 adolescents were diagnosed with varicocoele stages 2 and 3 prior to military service. Of 1988 (0.13% of the total cohort) men who were diagnosed with testicular cancer during follow‐up, 54 (0.1%) had varicocoele prior to military service, while 1934 (99.9%) did not; p = 0.213. The age at cancer diagnosis and the distribution of seminomas versus non‐seminomas did not differ significantly between those with and without varicocoele in adolescence. In a multivariable analysis controlling for sociodemographic factors, varicocoele was not associated with testicular cancer; odds ratio = 0.816 (CI: 0.615–1.083).
Conclusions
Varicocoele in adolescents was not found to be associated with testicular cancer in young adults.
Patient summary
In light of the theoretical association between varicocoele and testicular cancer, we conducted this large population study. We found no association between varicocoele in young adulthood and testicular cancer later in life.
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