[192326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Tue Oct 25 09:30:06 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:26:46 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <85864.1477115622@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:53:42PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> Recent events, like the Krebs DDoS and the even bigger OVH DDoS, and
> today's events make it perfectly clear to even the most blithering of
> blithering idiots that network operators, en mass, have to start scanning
> their own networks for insecurities.
And start monitoring their own networks for *outbound* attacks. Too many
people focus exclusively on inbound attacks, never realizing that every
attack inbound to them is outbound from somewhere else.
---rsk
