On Oct 30, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
o being put on a major DNS black list (spamcop, spamhaus, ahbl etc.) o hosting malware or phishing sites, open proxies o sending LOTS of SPAM, virus o IRC abuse o Botnet C&C o hoping glue/fast flux o abusive, vulnerable web servers
Some of those are clearly ludicrous to count as "incidents" at all
oh? which?
i can see some not being clearly incidents, but rather operational states, e.g. a vulnerable server/service. but ludicrous?
Well, the data sources that have a significant false positive rate are going to count many things as "incidents" that are anything but. If sending closed-loop, opt-in email is considered equivalent to hosting a botnet command and control network... the data is meaningless. In the hope of not pulling the blacklist trolls out of the woodwork I'm not going to be more specific as to which of those data sources have noticeable false positive issues, but I'm sure you get my point. Cheers, Steve