Spoofed requests to create a kind of DoS.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 4:09:25 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PSA - honeypot address users look here! Who the hell knows. Ookla's testing server (to make sure the speed test servers are up) hit the honeypot address a while back. I emailed them and they blamed someone else and that it was a shared IP. I assumed it was an AWS thing. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:06 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm < [email protected] > wrote: an xbox server hit your honeypot? Why would that happen? On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Josh Luthman < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> So I had more Xbox tickets in the last week than we've had for the last...forever... Looks like 65.55.42.183 (an auth server?) was blocked. It touched our honeypot address. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. </blockquote>
