Exodus / Clue problems

Jeff Carneal jeff at apex.net
Mon Nov 16 04:34:53 UTC 1998


On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, TTSG wrote:

> > removed from the network by request of the owner of the box.
> 
> 	b) WAS the origination actually the box as people have claimed, or
> 		was it spoofed?

I seriously doubt it was spoofed as mentioned before because the attacker
was going after _TCP_ ports on a wide spectrum of machine types.  Unless
he recently found a bug in every OS that allows IP blind spoofing (ISN
generation bugs?), it just about had to be the real address.

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  Jeff Carneal - Sys Admin - Apex Internet          
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