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Re: Mastercard problems
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:42:22 -0600
On 12/8/2010 2:37 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
On 2010-12-08 14:06 -0600, Philip Dorr wrote:The problem is that they were also slashdotted. The logs would also have a large number of unrelated."so... the loic tool uses the host's local address, the attacks are all HTTP based, or tcp/80 with malformed HTTP..." That should be easy to grep by...?
Of course, it's debatable if use of LOIC is enough to convict. You'd have to first prove the person installed it themselves, and then you'd have to prove that they knew it would be used for illegal purposes.
The hive controller, and the actual operator(s) are who they want, and that's a little more work. This has been an issue in the past, even when we knew exactly where botnet controllers were, concerning the legality of taking control to shut it down.
Jack
Current thread:
- Re: Mastercard problems, (continued)
- Re: Mastercard problems Jorge Amodio (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Paul Ferguson (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Ken Chase (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Joseph Prasad (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Jack Bates (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems William McCall (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Jack Bates (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Christopher Morrow (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Philip Dorr (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Olof Johansson (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Jack Bates (Dec 08)
- Re: Mastercard problems Paul Thornton (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Roland Perry (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Joseph Prasad (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Marshall Eubanks (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Jim Mercer (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Joseph Prasad (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Roland Perry (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Jim Mercer (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Roland Perry (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Michael Smith (Dec 09)
- Re: Mastercard problems Jack Bates (Dec 08)