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

[Russell Hogg]

Wow,
	Ask and you shall receive, It's definitely do-able then.
I wonder how precise one could get.

-Russ
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russellh at x-soft.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Rickman [mailto:jonathan at xcorps.net] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:33 PM
To: Russell Hogg
Cc: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'
Subject: RE: [ale] MS trying to blind side Linux via tcp/ip?

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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