Anand,
I am surprised. I have reported this to your executive, and they told me
that this against the policies of the society, and they would be interested
in stopping it.
May I ask why or what you would hope to achieve ?
I usually associate malevolent behaviour. You have a network, a permanent
connection, what could be on my firewall/network that you couldn't do /
install.
But you could have been doing it and _seriously_ going to report any
security issues to me, right ?
This suggests to me that you are after another valuable resource,
intellectual property, or worse for a corporate, credit card details - or do
you want to use my bandwidth to continue port scanning the network.
Stuart
----- Original Message -----
From: Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Stuart Hume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Annoyed with port scanners...
> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 10:35:04PM +1000, Stuart Hume wrote:
> >
> > Top points for "progsoc.uts.edu.au", who read my vitriolic email, didnt
> > ignore me, and despite it are off looking for clues, all less than 12
hours
> > after notifying them of being port scanned from there, and sending them
log
> > extracts.
> >
>
> If your scan from progsoc.uts.edu.au took place within the last three days
> then it was likely me.
>
> Regarding port scanning, basically it is par for the course with being on
> the Internet. The best defence is a good firewall (as you have
discovered).
>
> [psexec: on ftoomsh as I recall. ]
>
> Anand
>
> CC: to psexec as I certainly never received anything on any of the other
> administration email addresses.
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