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Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:15:53 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 sgorman1 () gmu edu wrote:
I was wondering if folks had noticed any trends with malicious network attacks predominantly originating from any individual or group of countries. Any observations, comments or help would be greatly appreciated.
If you believe the Vatican, its mostly American's doing the attacking. Although as a practical matter, I don't know if anyone really has good information about the true country of origin. In most cases, its the country of last-hop. http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_887398.htm "The Vatican has revealed it has taken on a team of experts to protect the Pope's website which is attacked by some 10,000 viruses a month and at least 30 mainly American hackers every day." Trivia: Unlike the usual Unix practice of naming things after demons, the Vatican named its security computers after Archangels. The Vatican firewall was called Michael, after the Archangel charged with guarding the gates of heaven with a flaming sword.
Current thread:
- Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks sgorman1 (Jun 25)
- Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks Sean Donelan (Jun 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks netadm (Jun 25)
- RE: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks Scott Weeks (Jun 25)
- Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks Adam Debus (Jun 25)
- Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks Scott A. McIntyre (Jun 25)
- RE: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks Scott Weeks (Jun 25)
- RE: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks McBurnett, Jim (Jun 25)
- Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks sgorman1 (Jun 25)
- Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks Jamie Reid (Jun 26)
- Live attackers or blind worms? (was Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks) Bill Zeng (Jun 26)
- Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks Peter Galbavy (Jun 27)
- Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks sgorman1 (Jun 27)