OT: Is There A Hacker Convention Going On?

Timstone · #1 January 25th, 2005, 04:11 PM

Thermodyne:
Ehhh... what do you mean? I fear I'm hopelessly outclassed by your knowledge about this kind of stuff. I yield.

Edit:
I just repeated what I was told, or better yet, made to believe.

Blue Lord · #2 January 25th, 2005, 04:33 PM

The router will, unless told otherwise, stop your ports from responding to pings. Someone pings your IP, worst case, the recieve "Port open to connections". As far as computer security goes, it goes downhill from there. Second worst case it responds with "Port's here, but closed". Best case, unless you did something to prompt the ping or have a specific port set to accept connection, it doesn't respond at all.

Which means the hacker in question might aswell be throwing packets at a computer that's turned off.

Add a firewall and a paranoid mind and you're safe as can be, short of *shudder* get rid of your modem.

Jack Simth · #3 January 25th, 2005, 05:36 PM

Nothing unusual showing up in my router's security log.

Of course, I've got it set to block pings....

Baron Munchausen · #4 January 25th, 2005, 06:04 PM

If you are getting LOTS of attacks from the same IP addresses, you should look up the source and send a complaint to the domain. Lots of tools are available online. You can do reverse lookups and WHOIS at this site, as well as get the 'abuse' address to report problems.

http://www.dnsstuff.com/

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 January 25th, 2005, 08:10 PM

The laws against breaking and entering need to be extended to electronic breaking and entering.

Atrocities · #6 January 25th, 2005, 08:15 PM

Yes, but when the purp lives in asia or the former Soviet Union, you kinda screwed.

It should be a law the your ISP provide protection from both virus and electronic B&N. Then again it is most likely our ISP's who are doing it and then selling the info. The SOB's.

Gandalf Parker · #7 January 25th, 2005, 08:56 PM

Since I host a white-hat hackers site, the home of the alt.hacker newsgroup, my server is rather a measuring stick of sites which get targetted by skiddies, black-hats, and crackers. In my opinion, you have been targeted. And probably for a DoS attack flood.

Overseas hackers: dont threaten them with law, threaten them with lawsuits. Its far more powerful, available everywhere, and in some countries VERY scarey.

ISPs offering protection: a common discussion in our newsgroup. There are pros and cons since no filter can avoid catching some good stuff with the bad. All of the "bad stuff" is he same protocols as the good stuff. It needs pretty invasive examining of your traffic to decide. My position is that there is a market for filtering AND non-filtering ISPs. I just wish they would choose and advertise themselves as such. I hate getting an account and then finding out that they block/filter something I needed to use.