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Re: [WEB SECURITY] The tsunami hacker
- From: Frederick Franco <webpreservation@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] The tsunami hacker
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
On 11/10/05, Jeremiah Grossman
<jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This register article provides a few more technical
details.
> Security pros savage Tsunami hacker verdict
>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/
There are a couple of things that I do not understand.
The article says that he was detected by an IDS. Those
gizmos are nothing but false alarms generators: they
just amplify Internet "background noise".
For example, the logs of any web server are filled
with worm attacks.
So how and why did they pick him?
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