On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > > Gene, > > > > Security by obscurity was once a valid technique. Still may be > > effective if you live way out in the sticks. > > > > However, anybody with a car, a laptop, and a wireless network sniffer > > can latch on to a wireless network that's either unprotected, or > > lightly protected. > > > > My machine controller is hardwired into a full copper network. Someone > > trying to get into the machine must first breach two firewalls, one on > > the router and one inside the network, and networking must be turned on > > the machine controller in order for someone to get even a chance at > > running a port mapper against it. > > > > Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I watch attack attempts from all over the > > world at work on a daily basis run against blocks of addresses. You're > > not really paranoid if they are out to get ya... ;-) > > > > Mark > > Snirk, but Mark, as far as fancy hackers go, I really am "out in the > sticks." > > FWIW, I run awstats on my web server, and am somewhat puzzled as in any one > month, I might have 3 or 4 megabytes pulled, and 40% of it goes to Chinese > domains. Why? I also have a subdir with 2nd amendment related stuffs... > > Hey, we all have to do our part don't we? > > Cheers, Gene > Gene, The majority of the attacks we see come from China. Followed by Russia, and other Eastern Block countries like Bulgaria. But far and away the largest number of attacks are Chinese initiated. I see it here too on my home network. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
