Re: Dealing with port scanners / attackers

[Adam Shostack]

On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:08:09AM -0600, Eric wrote:
| I'm not clear on what a port scan accomplishes with a spoofed address
| unless it is just to make you think you're being scanned from elsewhere.
| If you're being scanned from a spoofed address, then whoever is trying to
| find a vulnerability will never know the result, right?

There are other uses of portscans, like getting network A to blackhole 
business partner B's network because you trick A's reactive IDS
systems.

Adam


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