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Re: compromized host list available


From: Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:28:08 -0600


On 7/21/05, Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov> wrote:

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:32:09PM -0700, Rick Wesson wrote:
Folks,

I've developed a tool to pull together a bunch of information from
DNSRBLs and mix it with a BGP feed, the result is that upon request I
can generate a report of all the compromised hosts on your network as
seen by various DNSRBLs.
...
Unless you have personally verified each entry, you would do well to add
a disclaimer that DNSRBLs are not 100% reliable, eh?

Well there is that, but that should be implicit in pretty much every
report you get that $this or $that host is compromised. This is just a
convenient offering to say "someone out there thinks one of your
machines is holed. You might want to check that out." I'm good friends
with some fully-automated blackholing mechanisms, and even I'm not
crazy enough to just blackhole my own machines on someone else's
say-so.

CK


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