NSP-SEC

George Imburgia nanog at armorfirewall.com
Sat Mar 20 21:47:42 UTC 2010



On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> How exactly would being transparent for the following help Internet security:
>
> "I am seeing a new malware infection vector via port 91714 coming from the IP 
> range of 32.0.0.0/8 that installs a rootkit after visiting the web page
> http://www.trythisoutnow.com/.  In addition, it has credit card and pswd 
> stealing capabilities and sends the details to a maildrop at 
> trythisoutnow at gmail.com"
>
> The only upside of being transparent is alerting the miscreant to change the 
> vector and maildrop.


I disagree. *All* of that information would be useful for configuring 
filters at my border.


Cheers,
George
AD7RL




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