North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: We have a firewall (was Re: Pakistan government orders ISPservice level agreement)
On Tue, 6 May 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: > > The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd has aquired a firewall to > solve the DDOS situation impacting Internet service in the country. An > unnamed security advisor asserted the proper use of a firewall would > control the DDOS attacks and prevent hacking. > > I can understand the Pakistan government minister's frustration, and > desire to get things fixed. Unfortunately, it seems like security > incidents also attract security snake oil consultants. Buy my tonic > to cure your ills. I know we're all entertained by this quite unbelievable situation but is anyone actually helping these folks out? Someone on here must have a link to the Telecoms company concerned and theres plenty folks on here who can help get this cleaned up nice and quick.. ? Perhaps anyone with a contact over there should make themselves known and solicit for a helpful techie (to respond offlist, I dont want flaming for starting a consulting agency here :) Steve
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