Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

[PJ <briareos () otherlands net>]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Rob Thomas wrote:
> > ] I don't think spoofing will be a problem for the landmines. Most attacks
> > ] (99%?) are tcp.
> > Hmm...  Not based on my research.  The most common attack capabilities in
> > the bots are ICMP and UDP flooders.  After that, IGMP.  Last, TCP.  Most
> > of the DoS tools contain the same attack types as the bots.
> > On the receiving end, upwards of 80% of all the woe I track is not TCP.
>
> You miss the point of this:
>
> We are not landmining for DOSing.
>
> We are landmining to make it very dangerous for attackers to scan networks 
> and probe hosts.
>
> -Dan
> -- 
> [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]

Are you now operating under the premise that scans != anything but the
prelude to an attack?  Sorry if I missed it earlier in the thread, but
I would hate to think any legitimate scanning of a network or host
would result in a false positive.  Even more, I would hate to see the
advocation of a hostile reaction to what, so far, is not considered a
crime.

PJ

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