New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

Sat Sep 21 20:39:14 UTC 1996

On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

> > Source address filters do benefit the small ISP by making him less of a
> > target for hackers looking for a staging point.

> You think a hacker is going to break into your router to check out
> your IP filter lists first, before breaking into your Unix boxes to
> attempt an (unsuccessful) attack?

No, they break into your servers, run a source-spoofing test, then leave
to find greener pastures. If they could break into the routers they would
just modify the filters but it's harder to break into a router than a
server.

Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
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