On 25/07/2008, at 11:00 AM, Steven Heath wrote:
I am with Neil on this, what I have seen of AusCERT is it is a delayed mimic of CERT (comments welcome on if it does more etc).
It does do more. Its member services include training and consulting, and it runs "beacons" monitoring botnets so that it can tell you which IP addresses on your network are sufficiently malware-infected to annoy the rest of the Internet. They're also seen by the local press and the gubbermint as the go-to guys for security issues, which makes it a bit more likely that sensible clue will be inserted into some of the weirder, freakier public debates that often accompany infosec problems. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton(a)internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton(a)atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223