Re: ICMP (Ping)

["Jay Woody" <jay_woody () tnb com>]

Not really, they will randomly scan and the RETURN to the ones that
replied and run a vuln scan against it.  If you didn't reply to begin
with then they won't be RETURNING.

JayW

> > > Tim Greer <chatmaster () charter net> 09/05/03 02:58PM >>>
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 06:15, gregh wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Tim Greer 
> > To: SMiller () unimin com 
> > Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com 
> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:52 AM
> > Subject: RE: ICMP (Ping)
>
>
> > Fun stuff... what some people seem to fail to understand, is that
it's
> > unlikely someone's going to randomly probe for IP's to just
randomly
> > attack.  
>
> Sorry but script kiddies do that all the time.

And how is that going to help?  They will randomly attack it anyway.
-- 
Tim Greer <chatmaster () charter net>


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