Re: Europeanand Asia Pacific Internet Uses

["Shannon O'Donnell" <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all for the feedback.  I'll post a message here if I see an increase
in access attempts.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Philipp Rusch" <Philipp.Rusch@rusch-edv.de>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: Europeanand Asia Pacific Internet Uses


> Hello Shannon,
>
> and welcome to the real world !   :-)
>
> Have a look at   www.dshield.org
>
> to have a look at whats going on in port scanning and probing of "unlocked
doors".
>
> They are collecting statistics all over the world.
>
> My own experience is that I would NEVER trust in exit programs only,
always use
> a firewall, better use a combination of firewall and proxy to keep the
skript kiddies out
> and hold up the more serious ones.
> Best would be to have a router which has its own packet filters and at
least some protection
> against syn flood attacks and damaged tcpip headers between the exernal
net and your
> firewall machine...
>
> I could go on, if you are interested ...   :-)
>
> Regards from germany, Philipp Rusch
>
> P.S.:  The most serious attacks I have been watching at my customers came
from cablemodem
> accounts of earthlink.net (USA), they seem to have no measure of control
about their clients.
>
> Shannon O'Donnell schrieb:
>
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> > --
> > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > I recently added an exit point to my FTP server on my V4R5 system and
noticed that in the last day, I've been "probed" by one Asian-Pacific IP
address and two European IP addresses.
> >
> > They weren't able to get on and do anything, but still leaves me feeling
a bit "violated". ha!
> >
> > Just curious if anyone else has seen any attempts to get onto your
iSeries recently from those parts of the world.
> >
> > Shannon O'Donnell
> > --
> >
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