"Baribault, Gary" wrote:
>
> Hello all, I am not sure how much of this we want to discuss on a public
> mailing list where hackers are certainly listening in. I am getting a FLOOD
> of access attempts at a customer site where the was a Warez FTP server. I
> have placed a firewall in the way, changed internal addresses to private
> and basically shut things down. There was a concerted attempt to break
> things for a while but now the professionals have gone on to some other
> easier target (got knows there are tons). My problem is that I am still
> getting hundreds of attempts by DAMN script kiddies. We are spending hours
> each day tracing them and advising ISPs of these attempts but I am looking
> for policies and scripts to do these traces easyer. Please respond offline
> with policies (which attempts do you report and follow up on) and online
> with methods of speeding up this process. I am currently using a trace
> utility from www.pc-help.org.
>
> Gary B
If the computer was in Texas or the script kiddes are from Texas, you
could have those script kiddies prosecuted for violations of Chapter 33,
Computer Crime, of the Texas Penal Code. In Texas, it is illegal to access
a computer without proper authorization or in excess of proper authorization.
That could put them in jail for a while and cost them money for fines in
addition to their lawyer's fees. If we could get them to prosecute these
cases, it could have a pretty good impact on such attempts -- at least make
them check on the location of the computer before trying to break into it.
Eric Johnson
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