In the film “The Manhattan Project,” a high school student builds a small nuclear weapon to bring attention to a covert nuclear weapons research lab located near his suburban home. The ending of the film is a tense standoff between the high school student, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Army and [...]
Much of this post is from an e-mail I sent to a private list ~six weeks back. Trudging through some archives I stumbled upon it and thought it might be of interest to folks here.
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Given the topics at hand, I compiled some data (with permission, though now thoroughly anonymized) from 15 discrete networks employing Arbor [...]
Reading a slew of comments associated with a Slashdot post titled Can You Spoof IP Packets? I found a response stating “…every self-respecting network operator has RPF (or some other antispoof-ingress filter) enabled at the edge. Gone are the days of spoofing”.
For more than a decade now, many folks, myself included, have pushed for vendor [...]
Over this past weekend, ASERT received samples of the Nugache bot and analyzed them Monday morning. Nugache has been noticed because it appears to employ P2P to communicate rather than a more traditional IRC channel. People have been discussing it as a Waste-based protocol, the same method that people use to share MP3s.
The list of [...]
Amidst the daily headlines heralding the rise of massive zombie armies and malevolent teenage hackers in far-off countries, it’s easy to lose sight of one of the biggest threats to your network.
And you may be surprised by this oft overlooked enemy to uptime and your SLAs. (Hint: It isn’t the thousands of compromised PCs waiting [...]
