[22235] in North American Network Operators' Group
Security clearinghouses (was Re: heads up ... another imapd etc.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Bashinski)
Wed Dec 16 14:44:39 1998
To: cnielsen@nielsen.net (Christian Nielsen)
cc: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "14 Dec 1998 23:53:30 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:08:51 -0800
From: John Bashinski <jbash@cisco.com>
> There really needs to be a clearing house for companies to get together and
> help track down these so called great hackers (script kiddies).
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) does essentially
that. Its Web site is at "http://www.first.org".
The Computer Emergency Response Team / Coordination Center (CERT/CC)
tries to maintain statistics, and can often provide introductions to
the people you need to talk to. Its Web site is at "http://www.cert.org"
Somebody (IOPS?) was starting an ISP-specific group, which had many
of the big players on it. I don't remember any direct contact information,
and am not sure that I can give it out to the public anyway.
-- John B.
