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Special Forums Cybersecurity Network attack - so what? Post 302388167 by Action on Tuesday 19th of January 2010 03:26:04 PM

01-19-2010

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Originally Posted by sysgate

It depends. Back in the days when I was dealing with hundreds of spammers and attackers as a security officer I have even seen people ending up in the jail. But again, it will depend on the ISP / Enterprise, the local laws - California may be different than, let's say, Arizona, though they are neighbors, and especially the way you report the attacks / spam messages. Both Spamcop.net and Spamhaus.org do a pretty good job in providing cooperation to network / abuse admins through automated mail systems. There's a risk, however - some or all of the IP addresses may be indeed legitimate, but the attack itself deploys forged addresses injected directly into TCP packets.
Nevertheless, all spam messages fall under the CAN SPAM ACT 2003.
As for the SSHD attacks, you may consider those general advises, deploy sshdfilter or implement SSHBL.
HTH.

Thank you!

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NAME

       httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

       httppower [--url URL]

DESCRIPTION

       httppower  is  a  helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based power distribution units.	It is run interac-
       tively by the powerman daemon.

OPTIONS

       -u, --url URL
	      Set the base URL.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:

       auth user:pass
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	      over the network in plain text.

       seturl URL
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       get [URL-suffix]
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       post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
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FILES

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ORIGIN

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SEE ALSO

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