[54572] in North American Network Operators' Group
Trends in network operator security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Jan 8 16:13:19 2003
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:12:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Its 2003 and everyone is making their predictions. What trends are
network operators seeing for Internet security?
Old favorites
Buffer overflows
Distributed Denial of Service
Poor passwords (cisco/sanfran)
Poorly coded systems
Blame the user for not protecting poorly coded systems
Trends
Attack the network (why? because we can)
Proxy relay hiding (its not just for SMTP anymore)
Combo Bot/Trojan/Worms
Embedded software "upgrades"
Any other trends network operators are seeing?
