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Re: Exodus / Clue problems


From: Jeff Carneal <jeff () apex net>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:34:53 -0600 (CST)

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, TTSG wrote:

removed from the network by request of the owner of the box.

      b) WAS the origination actually the box as people have claimed, or
              was it spoofed?

I seriously doubt it was spoofed as mentioned before because the attacker
was going after _TCP_ ports on a wide spectrum of machine types.  Unless
he recently found a bug in every OS that allows IP blind spoofing (ISN
generation bugs?), it just about had to be the real address.

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  Jeff Carneal - Sys Admin - Apex Internet          
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