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ADSL/Zombies

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  • 15-06-2001 11:34am
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    hmmm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭


    This article in securityportal http://securityportal.com/articles/pf_adsl20010614.html had me thinking about the proposed ADSL from Eircon. There's lots of rumours about 1gb/3gb etc limits on data transfers. Now on a high speed connection you can push that out in no time at all, particularly if your puter had been hijacked and used as a zombie machine. So what happens when some clueless schmuck gets a bill for a zillion pounds because his ADSL connection spent the month bombarding grc.com?


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    dahamsta
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    Taken at face value, it would probably be legally their responsibility to pay the bill and sue the cracker to get the money back, unless they could prove that the security problem was the service providers fault. This comes back to the article by Steve Gibson about ISP's lack of security arrangements. But then, it *is* your computer. It's a legal minefield. I pity the first person it happens too. The worst thing is that it *will* happen. It's already happened numerous times for people with just modem links.adam


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    yossarin
    Registered Users Posts: 932 ✭✭✭yossarin


    off topic a little bit:
    as far as i've heard regarding ADSL: the consortia tendering for eircom all advocated (to their various banks + VCs) not rolling out xDSL untill year 4 of their business plan. that means 3 years from now.

    Its not going to happen any day soon. frown.gif
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    Zombies are a big issue though. The only fix seems to be forcing people to be aware of their network connections (patches on the tcp/ip stack blocking ports anyone ?), or the ISP limiting the ports to an accepted few. Neither are really acceptable, allthough the ISP one is more user friendly to a newbie user.

    It'd be nice if xDSL was deployed with a solution for this rather than the protect and patch model


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    chernobyl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭chernobyl


    if you can prove that you were not physically at your machine when your machine was doing a DOS attack then youe ok.
    Its your prerogative to be able to prove this (ie) hard/software firewall and netlogs (unix is a beauty for this $hit).
    if your gonna leave your DSL modem switched on even when your not at your machine, then you better have a nice firewall.
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