Re: [twsocket] Creatively annoying a host

2011-07-07 Thread Francois PIETTE
>I could leave the connection open without sending a response? You may delay it for, say, 5 sec. But then I guess the vulnerability to DDOS increases (thousands of connections simultaneously). I'm not sure how much of them is possible. Well, this is possible, depending on how their are organiz

Re: [twsocket] Creatively annoying a host

2011-07-07 Thread Anton S.
>I could leave the connection open without sending a response? You may delay it for, say, 5 sec. But then I guess the vulnerability to DDOS increases (thousands of connections simultaneously). I'm not sure how much of them is possible. >Or send a vast amount of rubbish data in response? Maybe — i

Re: [twsocket] Creatively annoying a host

2011-07-07 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
> *Subject:* Re: [twsocket] Creatively annoying a host > > I could leave the connection open without sending a response? > > > Just delay the answer for a couple second, this will slow down the > probing. I think keeping the client connection open as long as possible, sendin

Re: [twsocket] Creatively annoying a host

2011-07-06 Thread Arno Garrels
Marc Charbonneau wrote: >> Or send a vast amount of rubbish data in response? In the best case some data that will crash their stupid HTTP client :) -- Arno Garrels -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [twsocket] Creatively annoying a host

2011-07-06 Thread Marc Charbonneau
> My various web servers suffer regular attacks looking for exploits, the > current one is looking for php, 100 odd URLs at a time including: > > GET //dbadmin/scripts/setup.php > GET //phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc1/scripts/setup.php > GET //mysqlmanager/scripts/setup.php > GET /muieblackcat > > In my ICS w

Re: [twsocket] Creatively annoying a host

2011-07-06 Thread Matt Minnis
Systems Ltd Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 12:44 PM To: twsocket@elists.org Subject: [twsocket] Creatively annoying a host My various web servers suffer regular attacks looking for exploits, the current one is looking for php, 100 odd URLs at a time including: GET //dbadmin/scripts/setup.php GET

Re: [twsocket] Creatively annoying a host

2011-07-06 Thread Arno Garrels
Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: > My various web servers suffer regular attacks looking for exploits, > the current one is looking for php, 100 odd URLs at a time including: > > GET //dbadmin/scripts/setup.php > GET //phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc1/scripts/setup.php > GET //mysqlmanager/scripts

[twsocket] Creatively annoying a host

2011-07-06 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
My various web servers suffer regular attacks looking for exploits, the current one is looking for php, 100 odd URLs at a time including: GET //dbadmin/scripts/setup.php GET //phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc1/scripts/setup.php GET //mysqlmanager/scripts/setup.php GET /muieblackcat In my ICS web server, I was