[Gllug] Growth sectors for Linux admins?

[Alistair Mann]

Nix wrote:
>  On 22 Oct 2010, Steve Parker told this:
>
> > On 21/10/10 23:42, Alison Young wrote:
> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11562969
> >>
> >> Quick, put "cyber security" on your CV. Apparently it's this
> >> year's version of "Y2K expertise".
> >>
> > "hundreds of malicious e-mails were already being aimed at
> > government computer networks each month"
> >
> > Yikes! That's more than 3 per day!
>
>  I read something last month which said that US government networks
>  (in toto) had received 'thousands' of probes by attackers since 2001.
>
>
>  The definition of 'probe' the article was using included portscans.

ISTR at one point it included ICMP Echo Reply packets. Only a terrorist 
would use ping...
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Alistair Mann

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