On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:29:02 +, Walter Hurry wrote:
More out of curiosity than paranoia, I have carried out a small
geographical analysis of rejected intrusion attempts at my home router
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Sorry for the formatting, but I think it's just about legible, so I won't
pollute the list by
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:29:02 +, Walter Hurry wrote:
More out of curiosity than paranoia, I have carried out a small
geographical analysis of rejected intrusion attempts at my home router
(this consists of dropped TCP packets and ICMP (ping) requests).
Interesting stats, indeed...
Over
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:34:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
China|483 United Kingdom |
455 Russian Federation |167 Germany |
74
Spain| 68
Hey, I'm there (Spain) :-P
My e-mail and web
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:13:02 +, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:34:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
I am curious as to why the United Kingdom should figure so highly. It
is my own location, which is undoubtedly relevant, but I don't really
understand the reason. The Internet
1. How are you figuring the source country? If you're looking at the ip in
the handshake and comparing this to a db of ip / country, you're only
looking at half of the story. If you're a bit smarter and have a list of
border routers that country owns and are looking at that for the source
country,
Walter Hurry writes:
Am I to infer then, that it is likely than a fair proportion of these
do not emanate directly from the hacker, but from a bot on an innocent
bystander's box which has been compromised?
A fair proportion as in 99+%.
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On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:59:51 -0400, shawn wilson wrote:
1. How are you figuring the source country? If you're looking at the ip
in the handshake and comparing this to a db of ip / country, you're only
looking at half of the story. If you're a bit smarter and have a list of
border routers that
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 13:03, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:59:51 -0400, shawn wilson wrote:
1. How are you figuring the source country? If you're looking at the ip
in the handshake and comparing this to a db of ip / country, you're only
looking at half of
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:31:37 -0400, shawn wilson wrote:
imo, meaningless
Of that I have little doubt. As I said, I was just curious.
By the way, my router is just a cheap home DLink unit, not anything
running any special software. So I don't set the rules - just tell it
as part of the normal
On Aug 5, 2011 12:50 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:31:37 -0400, shawn wilson wrote:
imo, meaningless
Of that I have little doubt. As I said, I was just curious.
By the way, my router is just a cheap home DLink unit, not anything
running any special
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