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Re: Automated Network Abuse Reporting


From: Stephen Miller <steve () smiller org>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:20:58 -0700


try LogDog to act on the syslog data...it sends all syslog log files through a 
pipe and scans for specific data...then you can email the complete message to 
anyone. It can have a negative performance impact depending on the number of 
sustained syslog logs being generated....but I used it on a system receiving 
syslog logs from over 200 routers and didn't see any issues. Of course 
syslog-ng can also do this....but I found logdog easier to implement. Not 
sure how you can automate the abuse email address?? You can specify a perl 
script from within the logdog conf file that could do a dig on the ip address 
from the source address...but that's just me thinking out loud. I think 
you'll find many programs out there that can do this...both commercial and 
opensource...but you'll need to do some customization.

steve


On Monday 29 December 2003 09:04 am, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
We're a small company but none the less are inundated with firewall
logs reporting numerous attempts to find holes in our network; c'est la
vie.  Seeing as how we are small, we don't have the resources to go
through and send emails off to the abuse departments of each network
sourcing the probes.  Question is:  Has there been development of some
sort of intelligent unix land app that can understand Cisco syslog
output, find the abuse departments of the sourcing networks and send
them off a nice little FYI?


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