Posted by christophrejmc on March 10, 2002, at 20:44:11
In reply to Re: Ping Times and Traceroute » christophrejmc, posted by IsoM on March 10, 2002, at 19:24:44
> No Chris, I didn't give details (& won't)
What details? You mean your IP? You gave slightly less than 256 possibilities. Take away reserved addresses, nameservers, hosts NOT firewalling, etc... I think you get my point. ;)
> but I mean very literally our system is unaccessible. Seeing there's just two users on it & we've not decided whether to set it up for FTP yet, it's really, truly inaccessible. I did post enough info to get into our system if it weren't for all the extra fire-wall protection.
Yeah, I was just saying that you would still be somewhat at risk for DoS. (Piss off any 12 year-olds with OC48 access lately?)
> We don't have a back door on our system. Thanks for your concern.
Hmm? I didn't mean to imply you had a backdoor...
You're using a cable modem, right? Ever scanned your subnet for users with default NETBIOS setups (the same one that the cable modem installation people usually enable)? Jeez... full read/write access to the entire system for anyone on the same subnet.
Did you think I meant backdoor by what I said about people getting your personal information? I'm not sure how your ISP keeps its records, but I have seen information about an @home user (I think I've heard that most of the cable modem services in Canada are owned by @home) pulled by accessing @home itself (or possibly, the local @home server). This is more common with independent ISPs because of their lack of concern for external/internal security.
> We've looked over the entries on how often people try to tap into our computer - there may often be 10-20 attempts an hour. Soon people really have too much time on their hands & nothing useful to do.
Tell me about it. Luckily, with few exceptions, those doing such scans rarely have enough brains to do anything with the results (save for running some lame sourcecode they got from Bugtraq).
> Thought you might smile at this cartoon about DoS Attack: http://www.denialinfo.com/
Hey, at least no-one's getting killed. :)
-Christophre
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