[163583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shawn wilson)
Wed Jun 12 09:22:42 2013
In-Reply-To: <op.wyjqjfe4tfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:21:49 -0400
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Getting back to the topic. I just saw quite a few of our hosts scanned
for this by 192.111.155.106 which doesn't say much on its own as
http://dacentec.com/ is a hosting company.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:52:52 -0400, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Who really has a solid motive to make them stop working (other than a
>> printer manufacturer who wants to sell them more) ?
>
>
> Duh, so people cannot print to them. (amungst various other creative pranks)
>
> From a cybercriminal pov, to swipe the things you're printing... like that
> CC authorization form you just printed, or a confidential contract, etc.
> (also, in many offices, the printer is also the scanner and fax)
>
> --Ricky
>
