On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Simon Byrnand wrote:
-- SecurePipe Incident Response Team Tel: +1 608 294 6940 Fax: +1 608 294 6950 (attn: IRT) incident.response(a)securepipe.com
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I think there's crack in their "secure" pipe...
Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing from anyone else who has dealt with "securepipe.com", or just peoples opinions on the matter of automated firewall abuse emailing in general...
Well, I've had lots of letters from readers expressing outrage at "hacking attempts on NetBIOS ports", as reported by their freshly-installed copy of ZoneAlert/Alarm/BlackICE/younameit. I try to explain that setting their firewall program to automatically fire off complaints like that will likely lead to ISP NOC staff coming around offering baseball-bat massage, but it's not so easy to make non-technical users understand. Unscrupulous firewall vendors love to capitalise on people's fear of hairy hackers trying to prise open Internet connected PCs, unfortunately. IIRC I asked on NZNOG whether it might be an idea to drop NetBIOS over TCP/IP traffic completely, but can't recall what the general consensus about that was. -- Juha Saarinen - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog