[Gllug] Growth sectors for Linux admins?

[Alistair Mann]

Alistair Mann wrote:
>  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...

Echo *request*, dammit.
-- 
Alistair Mann


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