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Re: Hackers Targeting Home Computers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason)
Wed Jan 9 16:47:02 2002
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From: "Jason" <Jason.Gruber@btinternet.com>
To: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>,
"Hadmut Danisch" <hadmut@danisch.de>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:35:52 -0000
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I too see many hacking attempts on Home PCs (Win2000 and Win98). I am in the
UK and on British Telecom's ADSL.
I find it interesting that many sweeps seem to be from Fast Bandwidth
clients. I can change between ADSL and K56 and when on K56 attempts
diminish.
Firewall blocks the sweeps, the serious attempts and traces.
Interesting to See that **MANY** attacks originate in Germany, some in
Finland.
Has anyone seen any attacks on XP yet? Open Administrative ports!!! Like
bees to flowers.
Jason
>
> > WASHINGTON -- Computer hackers, once satisfied to test their skills on
> > large companies, are turning their sights to home computers that are
> > faster, more powerful and less secure than ever before.
>
> On my private computer (DSL, dynamically assigned IP address), I
> detect an increasing density of attack attempts. More or less serious
> attempts happen every few minutes in average (depends on daytime).
> Highest density is in the evening hours, when hackers and victims
> find time to be online.
>
> This means the probability of an infection of an unprotected
> private computer is quite high after only some hours of internet
> access. Most ("normal") people I know use such unprotected
> computers for internet access.
>
> Hadmut
>
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