scansandattacks-hackerfactor2017

Scans and Attacks

The Hacker Factor Blog

by Dr. Neal Krawetz Hacker Factor

September 15, 2017

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/775-Scans-and-Attacks.html

Notes
honeypot
packet
reconnaissance
blind attack
protocol
Telnet, NTP, DNS, SIP
Mirai 23/tcp and 2323/tcp
cloud
Digital Ocean, Alibaba, LeaseWeb
internet-wide scanning
cybersecurity research
Bitcoin
stolen credit card
Shodan
United Protection (UK) Security Ltd.
botnet
IDS
University of Michigan
cyber attack
vulnerability scanner
Shadowserver
Stretchoid
Stretchoid made a typo on their webpage, misspelling “malicious” as ‘malacious’
https://web.archive.org/web/20171004110640/http://stretchoid.com/
don’t submit PII to unknown people.
Ten Commandments of Ethical Hacking (Dummies Book) https://web.archive.org/web/20170307174900/https://www.dummies.com/programming/networking/obeying-the-ten-commandments-of-ethical-hacking/
authorization
cyber crime
intent
law enforcement
ICMP ping
“a single ping is a scan”
ping command
DoS, DDoS
Smurf attack
BinaryEdge.ninja
UC Berkeley
Nagra.com
TelnetScanProject.org
researchers send more traffic than the actual malware
Target breach https://www.reuters.com/article/us-target-breach-idUSBREA2C14F20140313/
armchair admins
alert fatigue
“once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is an attack.”

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