Re: Local servers used in attack on Whitehouse.

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From: Hal Burgiss
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 15:24

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On Mon, 07 May 2001 14:54:43 GMT, Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
wrote:
>In article <9d6bit$ooh$1@caerulus.cerintha.com>,
>Michael Scheidell <scheidell@fdma.com> wrote:
>>Ah, if the isp's only took the mynetwatchman.com alerts more seriously!
>
>We took them quite seriously.  But there's not much you can do to
>prevent a DoS attack, all you can do is wait for it to happen and then
>try to filter it.

Preventive maintenance: get the cracked boxes that are constantly
scanning off the network. And don't take weeks/months to do it. (I 
don't mean you guys specifically, just those who are lethargic like 
BellSouth.)

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Hal B
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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.atl.bellsouth.net.MISMATCH!newsfeed.atl!news1.atl.POSTED!localhost!hal

References: <9d6bit$ooh$1@caerulus.cerintha.com> <TGyJ6.3$Bv4.279@burlma1-snr2>

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From: hal@burgiss.net (Hal Burgiss)
Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls,bellsouth.net.security,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: Local servers used in attack on Whitehouse.
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