[ale] MS trying to blind side Linux via tcp/ip?

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Russell Hogg wrote:
> I always thought it would be fun to geographically plot virus/exploit
> outbreaks on a world map.  Drawing in the major internet trunks of course.
> Actually I'd be surprised if someone hasn't tried this yet as antivirus
> companies usually know who gets hit (Don't they?).  The hardest part might
> be figuring out where geographically an IP or range of IPs exists.  You
> could even take it further and display OS or webserver types as some color
> or something.
>
> I wonder if you could predict where viruses were most likely to take hold
> next if you had this sort of information.  I guess that's what this strand
> was already about.

http://www.dshield.org

http://aris.securityfocus.com/

This sort of thing is beginning to take shape, slowly.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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