I have to agree with jdow also. I'm getting hit with attacks from 21cn.com too. They make up the bulk of the attacks on me. Someone out there has the time and resources to do these attacks; every time I block an IP address a new one gets used. Maybe I shouldn't be so politically correct when it comes to my own system's security.
And yes I know this is an Outlook email. I sent it in plain text. I'm sorry if Outlook and/or Exchange clobbers it into HTML and tiny fonts. I couldn't hold ym tongue...
Thanks
Robert L. Cochran
-----Original Message-----
From: jdow [mailto:jdow@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 9:33 AM
To: psyche-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: strange e-mail from root
From: "Ed Wilts" <ewilts@ewilts.org>
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:24:14PM -0800, jdow wrote:
> > The Chinese are at it again, either second hand through a hacked host or
> > first hand.
>
> I don't think that's called for in this forum. After all, we don't
> claim "The Americans are at it again" when the majority of the hacker
> attempts come from US-based systems.
1) At least a third to a half the attacks on my system's interfaces trace
back to a .cn address. Should I deny this is the case? I did remark it
was either them or their hacked insecure systems, which are the two
possibilities.
2) If you notice the map on http://www.incidents.org/ you might note that
the pie circle over Asia is as big as that over the US, lately. (That
rather surprised me.) Of course, I freely admit that this merely
indicates
the machines doing the attacking are in Asia. The attackers may be doing
it through Asian cutouts. (The percentage of attacks traceable to Asia
in the gateway here that are Chinese is higher than others seem to
report.
I am not sure what that tells me. Nonetheless they are Chinese machines.)
3) I categorically refuse to be nice and politically correct and not profile
attacks when my own security is at stake.
So a great big
{`,'} to you, sir.
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