But all this kind of abuses would just have been avoided by a simple access
list on the internet access router, no?
At 16:23 31/01/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I just resolved a problem for a customer here that will go unnamed. The
>customer had a PDC, an HTTP server and two FTP servers as well as an AIX
>box and the workstations connected to an ISDN link (128K) with legal
>addresses. The sysadmin kept having to add disks to the server but never
>had the time to check where the space was going. I'm sure all of you can
>guess. I put a firewall in the way and changed all internal addresses to
>private (172.16-32) and had them change the passwords on the inside. The
>firewall log went ballistic, and I was getting 300 - 500 attempts a day
>from, 95% German hackers (I assume Warez) as well as some U.S. Military and
>corporate servers (which where compromised of course). The customer now
>finds that there is lots of space on the server and WOW is 128K FAST!
>
> I explained to the customer that they where legally responsible
>for the pornography and pirated software that was distributed by their
>server. They where amazed that all that was going on without their
>knowledge, and I explained that it was to the advantage of the hackers and
>Warez operators that they keep the infected servers running as well as
>possible.
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Luc Amouriaux / Services R�seaux Atos Infogerance
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