Re: Connection attempts

From: Jim Durham (durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us)
Date: 04/23/01 

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:28:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Michael S Scheidell wrote:

> In local.freebsd.security, you wrote:
> >
> >Script kiddies..just ignore it and get used to it.
>
> I don't suggest ignoring the 'kiddies' that walk down the street trying to
> see if my windows are open either.
>
> 80% of these systems have bveen compromized, and the owner doesn't even
> know it.
>
> Wouldn't you like to take these systems off the net?
> You want one of them to run against your system (if you miss a security
> bulitin?)
>
> its easy enough to log and alert the isp.
>
>

I don't know what you folks' experience has been, but I've had
almost no luck with alerting ISPs to these problems. A lot of
this stuff comes from Korea and Chekoslovokia and I get no
responses from the ISPs.

-Jim Durham

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