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Re: early warning mailing list?

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Wed Feb 02 21:37:53 2000

On Wed, 02 February 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
> Is there an 'early warning' mailing list for up-to-the-minute alerts
> about in-progress DoS attacks, portscanning, etc?

The for-profit security companies, e.g. McAfee, Computer Associates,
Symantec; frequently issue alerts via Businesswire and PR Newswire.  They
seem to compete with each other on who can get a press release out first.

Although its not real-time, the NIPC puts out CyberNotes every two weeks.
Its a good summary of what's happening.  Look in publications on the
http://www.nipc.gov/ web site.

There are a number of real-time intrusion detection projects underway.  The
good ones seem to fade in and out, and focused on a single customer base.  But
I'm not aware of any which feed real-time reports to a public list, such as
the case for spam hunters.