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Re: Some weekend entertainment
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 09:08:14 +0200
At 11:37 AM 03-12-05 -0700, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
On 12/3/05, Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Peter Kruse wrote: > I think this is a direct result of their research at Internet mapping: > http://www.netdimes.org/ > They may have been brainstorming and saying "now that we have such a large > botnet under our control and we have mapped the Internet, what should we > do now?" They probably should have fixed their site before mapping the entire Internet ;-) (from http://www.netdimes.org/data.php) Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Lost connection to MySQL server during query in /var/www/html/DIMES/data.php on line 169 Lost connection to MySQL server during query
Already stated in their forums: http://www.netdimes.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=498 -Hank
> and the answer probably was, "what if we converted these 30,000 systems > into honeypots and captured virii and ..." LOL, that sounds like the most plausible explanation suggested. I hope they decide against this, as their "wormholes" will be owned pretty quickly, and actually be used to beat virus def's. Imagine: you have one network of machines distributing a package of signatures to detect viri. Someone hijacks 1 machine and sends out a viri rather than a signature update. Bam! Instant botnet! -JP "Shut yer Wormholes" -Captain Cisco +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
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