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Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 21:52:03 -0400
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
Margie Arbon wrote:
With all due respect, we have a *problem*. End user machines on broadband connections are being misconfigured and/or compromised in frightening numbers. These machines are being used for everything from IRC flooder to spam engines, to DNS servers to massive DDoS infrastructure. If the ability of a teenager to launch a gb/s DDoS, or of someone DoSing mailservers off the internet with a trojan that contains a spam engine is not operational, perhaps it's just me that's confused.
I believe that to be one of the most succint summaries of the issues as I have read.
I concur whole-heartedly. Add on the background noise of still unpatched Code Red, Nimda, SQL Slammer, Blaster, and the scanning for open servers (ftp, smtp, proxy, squid, socks, wingate, etc) and we are talking about a considerable amount of [malicious] bandwidth waste. Adding further to that we have ridiculous quantities of ICMP spewing from Nachi/Welchia infections.
The average household broadband connections are indeed being compromised, but our "threshold of pain" seems to be exponentially growing as the background noise gets louder and louder, and unusual spikes get drowned out by P2P. It takes a major catastrophe like Slammer or Blaster to get anyone's attention anymore (above the abuse reports from IWFs (Idiots With [personal] Firewalls).
Jeff
Current thread:
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Mike Tancsa (Oct 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Dr. Jeffrey Race (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Susan Harris (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Margie Arbon (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Avleen Vig (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Petri Helenius (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned Jeff Kell (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Susan Harris (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Damian Gerow (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Lou Katz (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Suresh Ramasubramanian (Oct 10)