Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-21 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Randy Bush wrote: unfortunately snort does not really scale to a larger provider. and, to the best of my poor knowledge, good open source tools to black-hole/redirect botted users are not generally available. universities have some that are good at campus and enterprise sc

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-20 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Brandon Galbraith" writes: > But it's definitely not cool when my credit card company cuts off my card > due to "abnormal charges" when I'm abroad and suddenly can't get ahold of > customer service via their international phone number. Automation in the > right places works wonders for both conve

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 12/20/08, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > > I like automation. It has rules and follows them. The rules are posted > ahead of time for all to see. Most of the time people are happy to see the > automated system put a stop to some kind of potential disaster before it has > time to cause more damage. It

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Seth Mattinen
Luke S Crawford wrote: Randy Bush writes: speaking as a small provider, I can tell you that I find running snort against my inbound traffic does reduce the cost of running an abuse desk. I do catch offenders before I get abuse@ complaints, sometimes. unfortunately snort does not really scale

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Luke S Crawford
Randy Bush writes: > > speaking as a small provider, I can tell you that I find running snort > > against my inbound traffic does reduce the cost of running an abuse desk. > > I do catch offenders before I get abuse@ complaints, sometimes. > > unfortunately snort does not really scale to a large

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Nathan Ward
On 20/12/2008, at 4:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote: speaking as a small provider, I can tell you that I find running snort against my inbound traffic does reduce the cost of running an abuse desk. I do catch offenders before I get abuse@ complaints, sometimes. unfortunately snort does not really

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Joel Esler
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:23 PM, Randy Bush allegedly wrote: unfortunately snort does not really scale to a larger provider. I respectfully disagree. I have very large entities with ALOT of traffic running through Snort. However, they are also using my company's products. I work for Source

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Randy Bush
be specific, like "if you run X tools the payoff will be Y." Yes. And where is the appropriate form for this? there must be some operators' list somewhere. > it doesn't seem like the sort of thing NANOG is for yep. nanog is for whining about it, not doing/saying something actually construc

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Luke S Crawford
Randy Bush writes: > be specific, like "if you run X tools the payoff will be Y." Yes. And where is the appropriate form for this?I find this sort of thing quite interesting; and yeah, it doesn't seem like the sort of thing NANOG is for, but most of the small ISP forms (like webhostingtalk

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: but you need to be much more specific about what you want from medium and smaller isps, and

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Rich Kulawiec wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: >>> >>> but you need to be much more specific about what you want from >>> medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. t

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Gadi Evron
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: but you need to be much more specific about what you want from medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. the financial secions of the newpaper) will be to them to justify the

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread JF Mezei
Quick comment on e-commerce. Consider that in many/most cases, the merchant will want to capture the customer's address which is sent along with credit card information for authorization. Once the merchant has received an authorization, he is pretty much garanteed to get pad by the credit card com

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Randy Bush
On 08.12.15 05:08, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: but you need to be much more specific about what you want from medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. the financial secions of the newpaper) will be to them to justify the co

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Murtaza
Wow!! thats an eye opener.. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > > but you need to be much more specific about what you want from > > medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. the > > financial se

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > but you need to be much more specific about what you want from > medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. the > financial secions of the newpaper) will be to them to justify the costs. Inferior people look solely

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-13 Thread Randy Bush
The point I am trying to make here is that ISPs should much more engaged in this entire process. most of the larger isps have reasonable security teams with some good folk. but you need to be much more specific about what you want from medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-13 Thread Randy Bush
If folks think that people are not "doing" massive correlation of criminal activity on the Internet, they would be mistaken. engineers judge by the results. and, unfortunately, we can read them in the ny times. though some recent papers sure make interesting reading. just picking on one pa

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-13 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not in the habit of responding to my e-mail, but... On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:22 AM, James Hess wrote: > >> >> An in-depth strategy with hundreds or thousands of factors examined >> resul

Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-13 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:22 AM, James Hess wrote: > > An in-depth strategy with hundreds or thousands of factors examined > results in a smaller > (but still present) possibility of the filter/detector being fooled. > > IP-based methods can be com