It may have been a coincidence but about an hour before they started hitting us I got a call from a subscriber on that gateway telling me she had just started getting that damn false virus program taking over her PC. Most of them I've seen redirects all internet traffic through their server, always have seen it go to Russia, and I was guessing the two may be related. Phoned home and since that network is Nat'd it would have given the IP for our router. And of course, they can always just sit and scan for active IP's all day as well.........
Bob- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Sharples Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 3:04 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attack on Mikrotik Gateway Most of the attacks we've seen have been from Chinese and eastern European IPs. I suppose it could be a Chinese or Russian grandma tho :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Lambert" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attack on Mikrotik Gateway > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:00:05PM -0700, Tom Sharples wrote: >> I've often wondered, is it legal for the receipient of this sort >> of thing, to retailiate with e.g. ping or curl storms? > > No. Flat no. And most of the time, your retaliation would be > against some poor schmuck who simply hasn't kept up to date on their > software updates. Does someone's grandmother's computer deserve > to be beaten up? > > It may be satisfying to to think about, but don't go there. > > -- > Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix > SysAdmin > [email protected] > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
