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Re: router worms and International Infrastructure
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:57:03 -1000
----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> To: surfer () mauigateway com Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:18:43 +0200
Subnetwork specific worms? I only want to take down as1 , as2 and as3, for example, rather than a large-scale 'internet killer' outage.Almost a year ago we had a crisis in Israel where something caused ONLY Israeli ISP clients to stop being able to use their DSL connections, and on the SAME DAY. We believe it was a targeted worm. Who said this can't happen? It already did. The biggest impact was the help desks being DDoS'd.
Do you mean to imply that it was a router code worm or a normal worm? A "Warhol Worm" in a logically localized area (an AS or three) utilizing router exploitations would be spectacularly fast. scott
Current thread:
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Scott Weeks (Sep 19)
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Gadi Evron (Sep 19)
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Scott Weeks (Sep 20)
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Gadi Evron (Sep 20)
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Sep 20)