I've yet to see this on outgoing. Regards, Chuck
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Ken Hohhof via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > Yeah, I’m just saying ISPs that provide 25M, 100M, 1000M connections to > the home, especially symmetric ones, will need plans to deal with customers > who are maxing out their upstream bandwidth with malicious traffic > (probably without knowing it). Sure, you can stream 8K video of your cats > to the world from your Google Fiber connection. But if it’s 1 Gbps of DDoS > attack traffic, Google is going to have to detect it and stop it at the > source. Now one residential customer has the same firepower that > previously only an ISP or a server at a datacenter or a government > researcher had access to. It’s like giving military surplus rocket > launchers to local police, there is going to be misuse, even without bad > intent. > > > *From:* Josh Reynolds via Af <af@afmug.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, October 05, 2014 2:56 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - Mac based botnet > > Maybe, but those home routers are just as easily exploited and are > hard-wired. > > Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer > SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com > On 10/05/2014 06:53 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote: > > Something I’m not sure ISPs have faced up to, is that home PCs are > starting to have good enough Internet connections to be valuable as bots. > Bad guys used to target those Linux servers partly because they were at > datacenters with lots of upstream bandwidth. But you don’t need a lot of > home PCs on Google Fiber to create a botnet capable of a formidable DDoS > attack. The limiting factor might be home WiFi. > > > *From:* Paul Stewart via Af <af@afmug.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, October 05, 2014 9:38 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - Mac based botnet > > > Yeah probably not even 1% … Mac’s are no more immune than Linux is … > speaking of, I’m amazed by how many linux admin’s don’t keep their systems > patched. That number is hacked linux servers is way way higher than 1% I > would be confident….. > > > > Paul > > > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <af-boun...@afmug.com>] *On > Behalf Of *Eric Muehleisen via Af > *Sent:* Sunday, October 05, 2014 10:07 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - Mac based botnet > > > > Who said Macs were immune? 17k is hardly cause for panic. What is that, > less than 1% affected? > > > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > > So much for the belief that Macs are immune to malware. > > > http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/reddit-powered-botnet-infected-thousands-of-macs-worldwide/ > > > > >
