Ok. To make my own contribution to this thread hijack somewhat operational... How many people have had to add to their NOC/Abuse desk SOP: "When someone calls threatening that they are the FBI/CIA/NSA/Your grandmother returned from the dead... <something, something, something> but essentially, "Don't Panic. And they are basically a crackpot."" Deepak Gadi Evron wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....
Or a place on dshield's top 10.
Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about.
I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time that were basically a report from whatever security software someone was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually something along the lines of this:
"HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
jms