RE: [cobalt-users] Hack Attempt

["Andrew Witham" <awitham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your principal 'right' is the right to protect yourself, just as you lock
the door when you leave home, or leave your car in a public parking lot.
Whilst you have a right to expect not to be attacked - life is such that it
is a forlorn expectation.

There are numerous papers, many from hackers themselves, on how to protect
yourself.

Apart from that, your 'rights' will likely depend on the legal jurisdiction
that you are in, the jurisdication of the suppose offender, and the
identification of the offender.

It is most likely that the IP address used is spoofed - and you will never
identify the offender.



>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
>   John Cordeiro
>   Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:22 AM
>   To: Cobalt Users List
>   Subject: [cobalt-users] Hack Attempt
>
>
>   Hey everyone, just a note to let you know about a malicious
>   User from
>   symaptico.ca.
>
>   I received an alarm on my firewall, a user tried to use a
>   netbus Trojan to
>   bring down the server. Probably an ICMP flood. Anyway, I
>   got the log and Ip
>   address of the user. Did a nslookup on the address and then
>   a whois on the
>   domain. Called the phone # on the Whois record and spoke
>   with their admin,
>   who said send a message to abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx and they
>   would take care of
>   it.
>
>   My question is what right do I have at this point?
>
>   Heads up
>   Thanks,
>   Johnc
>
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