Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years

Fri Oct 12 19:13:26 UTC 2007

Ok.

To make my own contribution to this thread hijack somewhat operational...

How many people have had to add to their NOC/Abuse desk SOP:

"When someone calls threatening that they are the FBI/CIA/NSA/Your 
grandmother returned from the dead...

<something, something, something>

but essentially, "Don't Panic. And they are basically a crackpot.""

Deepak

Gadi Evron wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
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>> You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....
> 
> Or a place on dshield's top 10.
> 
> 
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>> Justin M. Streiner wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
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>>>> You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like
>>>> this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth
>>>> worrying about.
>>>
>>> I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others)
>>> at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time
>>> that were basically a report from whatever security software someone
>>> was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually
>>> something along the lines of this:
>>>
>>> "HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!!  I TAKE MY SECURITY
>>> SERIOUSLY!!  I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
>>>
>>> The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
>>>
>>> jms
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