Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack

[Alex P. Rudnev]

Btw.

For the victim, there is not difference between -
- smurf amplifies abused by the hacker;
- broken box abused by the hacker to create flood attack;
- broken dialup provider abused to send spam.

Don't talk about the smurf, talk about badly-secured systems. Open 
direct-broadcast is one example; open SMTP relay is another one; 
non-fixed exploit abused to get root access is the third example.

This common case is - _someone does not secure his box/lan from abuse; 
what should we do_.

The forths case is (not yet) - ISP does allow to send frauded SRC 
addresses.


On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Steven J. Sobol wrote:

> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:35:12 -0500
> From: Steven J. Sobol <sjsobol@nacs.net>
> To: Harold Willison <harold@agis.net>
> Cc: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>, nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 12:46:44PM -0500, Harold Willison wrote:
> >  
> > Tracking down a smurf amplifier is not a problem. Getting the folks to 
> > fix it 
> > is a little harder than it should be now, as most of the folks left 
> > with open  
> > amplifiers have been notified and have to this point refused to fix or 
> > are unable to fix it. 
> 
> Oh, good... then if they refuse to fix their problem, and it can be documented
> that they refuse to fix their problem, and someone uses them as an amplifier,
> they can get sued. I hope we have some documentation that these people refuse
> to do anything.
>  
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> Steve Sobol [sjsobol@nacs.net]
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