North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > > Source address filters do benefit the small ISP by making him less of a > > target for hackers looking for a staging point. > You think a hacker is going to break into your router to check out > your IP filter lists first, before breaking into your Unix boxes to > attempt an (unsuccessful) attack? No, they break into your servers, run a source-spoofing test, then leave to find greener pastures. If they could break into the routers they would just modify the filters but it's harder to break into a router than a server. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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