Re: Connection attempts

From: Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org)
Date: 04/23/01 

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:10:33 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: scheidell@fdma.com

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:29:46AM -0400, 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.

Fine, feel free to :-)

Kris

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