[juneau-lug] Auto-rooter

Here's an interesting read.

http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1619

Remember, you don't need to have a cable modem or DSL to be targeted.  "Way
back when" I had my home network connected to the internet via a dial-up
modem.  My firewall would regularly log all of the same attacks that a cable
modem would see.  The only difference is that I would lose connectivity when
I hung up, and I rarely kept the same IP for more than a few hours.

If you are downloading something and online for more than a few minutes, a
random attack on your IP has a chance of succeeding.  (The good news is that
any attack on your IP will likely be a script kiddie - the real crackers
probably wouldn't waste time on a dial-up IP that might go down any second.)



Cheers,

James


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