Re: Strange attacks

From: Russell Fulton (r.fultonat_private)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 16:05:20 PST

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    On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 05:47, opus wrote:
    > Beginning on October 10th at 1:42am CDT what was considered a pretty 
    > significant attack took place.  These attack attempts were all web based.  
    > What is curious about these attacks is the number of unique strings used 
    > in the attacks.  In all there were 149 unique Snort rules triggered, from 
    > 5 attacks in 14 days.
    
    I see these from time to time,  looks like someone using nessus of
    whisker...  I am also seeing more clusters of similar attacks from
    various DSL and Cable networks.  It is likely that these are the work of
    the same group, probably using compromised machines.
    
    -- 
    Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer
    The University of Auckland,  New Zealand
    
    "It aint necessarily so"  - Gershwin
    
    
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