hahaha
josh reynolds :: chief information officer
spitwspots :: www.spitwspots.com
On 12/02/2014 08:53 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote:
My wife is watching that new show Gotham and now I’m scared of Radio
Shack and Geek Squad employees because they remind me of that Penguin
character.
*From:* That One Guy via Af <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Tuesday, December 02, 2014 11:47 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 1. Netflix 2. Hacking
If they want free I point them to security essentials, all the free
products are worthless, security essentials is the lightest, so
malwayre has less probability of taking advantage of taxed
processor/cpu ala anything norton.
malwarebytes seems to be the best at catching things
if they want paid AV its always kasperky though it causes notable
slowness on the interwebs, since it actually scans stuff
Geek squad is actually a great solution, send them there, then you
dont have to worry about it since their computer no longer works,
better than telling them to unplug the power cord
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Mike Hammett via Af <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I haven't decided to integrate my idea with SPAM prevention, but
I've been thinking about it. ;-) I'll get the other stuff working
first.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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*From: *"Ken Hohhof via Af" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*To: *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent: *Tuesday, December 2, 2014 10:24:59 AM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] 1. Netflix 2. Hacking
I've had a similar discussion with customers who manually block
the email
address of everyone who sends them spam. So they have a blacklist of
thousands of random fictitious email addresses that sound like the
real
names of Batman villains. They feel good blocking the spammers,
so I've
given up trying to talk them out of it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hammett via Af
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 9:36 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 1. Netflix 2. Hacking
I can't force the abuse contact to do anything.
If you don't try something, you're just as complicit.
Fail2Ban with custom rules and actions is what I'm working on.
Just because it is a dynamic pool doesn't mean people don't
perpetually have
the same IP.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Hohhof via Af <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:27:58 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 1. Netflix 2. Hacking
Just when you put all that effort into it, and talk about throwing
violators
into a BGP blackhole, and forcing abuse contacts to take action,
it seemed
inconsistent with the reality. Plus the fact that a lot of those
will be
dynamic pool addresses. If you’re talking about something like
Fail2ban and
blocking SSH for 60 minutes, that makes sense. SSH and RDP dictionary
attacks are a big problem, as are DNS amplification attacks. But
rarely does
the source IP actually identify who is behind the attack, just one of
millions of bots. It seems a futile exercise to block them one IP
address at
a time.
From: Mike Hammett via Af
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 9:10 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 1. Netflix 2. Hacking
Yes and I stated so in that e-mail.
-----
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: "Ken Hohhof via Af" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 8:46:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 1. Netflix 2. Hacking
You do understand most of those IPs will be infected computers
with a bot
doing the scanning, not a bad guy sitting at his own computer, right?
As far as customers, we tell them they need to at a minimum have
Microsoft
Security Essentials or the free version of a commercial AV. If
they ask for
a recommendation of a commercial AV product, we tell them we use
ESET.
Nothing will protect someone who engages in risky online activity
or clicks
before thinking. Those people need a good local computer shop (not
Geek
Squad) to rescue their computer and data and to install security
software.
And amazingly, I still need to tell people that securing their
WiFi is not
optional, and 1234 is not an acceptable email password.
From: Mike Hammett via Af
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 8:39 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 1. Netflix 2. Hacking
No bursting anywhere for anything.
Currently I firewall all IPs that touch my honey pot IPs or
attempt SSH at
my edge. No need to have any of them on my network. I'm
implementing a
method to bring all servers, routers, switches, etc. back to a
central
syslog where I run my analysis there. That will then capture the more
distributed scansattacks. Other than a whitelist, violators will
be thrown
into a BGP blackhole. It'll also fire off an e-mail to the RIR
registered
abuse contact. If you're doing any sort of trickery or trickeration
(intentional via script kiddieworse or unintentional via malware),
I don't
want simple scans escalating into something more complex and
possibly more
damaging. You do the simple stuff, into the blackhole you go. I do
understand that the abuse contact on the other side isn't likely
to do much,
but for the networks that will take action, I'd like to give them the
information to do so. Plus if enough people do it, the abuse
contacts are
going to have to do something.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: "Tyson Burris @ Internet Communications Inc via Af"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 8:28:16 AM
Subject: [AFMUG] 1. Netflix 2. Hacking
Two questions for the group this am.
1. Are you setting burst limits for Netflix or other streaming video
services on your network routers? If so, what rate are you
limiting it at?
2. With 97% of the US networks now Hackable, what are you doing on
your side
and advising customers to do? Meaning… what front line defenses
are you
taking and what software and/or hardware protection are you
recommending to
your customers?
(It would appear that the majority of hacks these days are
actually Malware
infections inside the network - Employee related errors)
Put your 2 cents in.
Tyson Burris, President
Internet Communications Inc.
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