[14609] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Smurfing and other problems...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis A. Destree)
Mon Jan 12 14:44:18 1998
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:25:47 -0600
From: "Louis A. Destree" <destree@flash.net>
To: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
May I be of service?
Louis
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Louis A. Destree
Senior Network Engineer
FlashNet Communications
destree@flash.net
Joe Shaw wrote:
>
> Good morninig everyone,
> Does anyone have an operations contact at Flash Net? Around 4:30am CST
> Sunday morning I was in the office due to a fiber cut and got on IRC to
> talk to some of our tech support staff to give them a heads up on the
> situation. I ended up running into someone who started using all his
> k-r4d skr1ptz and decided to start smurfing, port scanning and trying some
> remote expoits. I captured everything and tried to notify flash.net's
> NOC, but haven't gotten a response yet. Anyone ever dealt with any sort
> of operational issue with this bunch or am I going to have to start
> talking to the Feds first? He only did it for a short time, but long
> enough that if Flash Net had someone on duty and their contact numbers
> in whois were to their NOC instead of their sales office I would have been
> able to track this kid down.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
> NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
> Fortune for today: "Life may have no meaning -- or worse, it may have a meaning
> of which you disapprove." Unknown.
