[163567] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Jun 11 22:57:03 2013
To: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:37:04 -0400."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:55:12 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:37:04 -0400, "Ricky Beam" said:
> Indeed I have. Which is why I haven't for a great many years. Academics
> tend to be, well, academic. That is, rather far out of touch with the
> realities of running / securing a network.
Do you have any actual evidence that a .edu of (say) 2K employees
is statistically *measurably* less secure than a .com of 2K employees?
We keep hearing that meme - and yet, looking at the archives of this list,
I see a lot more stories of network providers who should know better doing
stupid stuff than I see of .edu's doing stupid stuff.
The Verizon report says small business is actually the biggest cesspit of abuse:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/22/smallbusiness/small-business-cybercrime/index.html
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/2013/
~100 employee firms in health care appear to be a particular lost cause.
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