Automatic abuse reports

Wed Nov 13 01:43:28 UTC 2013

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Sam Moats <sam at circlenet.us> wrote:
> We used to use a small perl script called tattle that would parse out the
> /var/log/secure on our *nix boxes, isolate the inbound ssh exploits, lookup
> the proper abuse contacts and report them. I haven't seen anything similar
> in years but it would be interesting to do more than null route IPs.
>
> The problem we had with the automated reporting was dealing with spoofed
> sources, we see lots of traffic that is obviously hostile but unless it
> becomes serious enough to impact performance we rarely report it. An
> automated system didn't seem to fit anymore due to false positives.

Hi Sam,

Out of curiosity -- how does one get a false positive on an ssh
exploit attempt? Does the origin IP not have to complete a 3-way
handshake before it can attempt an exploit?

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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