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Re: Upsurge in attacks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Tue Sep 4 18:29:59 2001

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:27:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: "Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> Has anyone else noticed an upsurge in unsophisticated [packet flood, etc]
> attacks since college kids have to their own devices in dorms again this
> year?

The IP-Spoofing scan floods have been unreal..from my own customers.
ntop helps detect them.. but it's tough when the are behind
NAT firewalls. (see: www.ntop.org)


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