RE: AT&T early warning system

[Steve Wray <steve.wray () paradise net nz>]

What if people developing worms do small test runs
before the final release?

The AT&T approach might not work if the developer
was testing it on a private network, but if they
used a small collection of zombies on the internet 
to test it out and see how well it works, 
conceivably it could be detected?

Or something like that...

> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Hoho
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 22:44, jkm wrote:
> > Quote 2:
> > "AT&T saw anomalies in its network three to four weeks 
> before that worm
> > hit and was able to take certain precautions. "When the 
> worm actually
> > happened, AT&T's network did not take a hit,'' Eslambolchi said."
>
>
> Doesn't it seem like they're trying to violate causality? If the worm
> doesn't exist yet, then its associated traffic doesn't exist 
> yet, hence
> there's nothing to detect. Wonder what those 'anomalies' 
> were. Seems no
> more effective than just watching MS security patches and reading FD.

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