Re: What to do if they ignore you

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Organization bgSEC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
El mié, 13-04-2005 a las 10:29 -0700, Skip Carter escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> My company provides outsource security management/monitoring services.
> 
> In early March we noticed that several of our clients that are in the
> same /16 block were getting persistent port 445 probes from a couple
> of systems from a very large corporation's satellite office which is
> on the same /16 block.
> 
> I have repeatedly called the companies security manager (on the US east
> coast) and talked to people at the companies headquarters (on the US
> west coast).  They take my information (I have shown them firewall logs,
> IDS logs, captured packet traces, and honeypot sessions) but nothing is
> done about these probes (typically around 1500/day).
> 
> We have black-holed connections from the offending network block, but many
> of our clients are small and do not have firewalls with the resources to
> handle huge lists of blacklisted networks.
> 
> It has been over a month now, and nothing has changed.  They seem to be
> unable or unwilling to fix their own systems when they have all the
> information they could ask for in order to track the problem down.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions on what to do to make Goliath behave
> when you are David ?

Take a look at: http://www.dshield.org and their Fightback program,
maybe is what you are looking for.

Regards.

-- 

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Director Tecnico de bgSEC
[email protected]
bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
http://www.bgsec.com
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