Re: "Don't panic"?

From: Markus Friedl (msfriedl@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
Date: 01/30/02 

From: msfriedl@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Friedl)
Date: 30 Jan 2002 12:36:59 GMT

In <NxI58.4188$0V6.1934@nwrddc02.gnilink.net> "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net> writes:

>Richard, I've been seeing a *lot* of system scans over the last few months.
>People are breaking into one vulnerable box and using it as a springboard to
>scan entire networks. Reporting such random connection attempts helps track
>the penetrated machines so that the administrators can get them cleaned up:
>I've personally found such reports about my own network to be quite useful
>in finding un-secured machines at my new job.

sure, but from my experience it's better to spend
the time fixing the problems instead of hunting scanners.

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