Full Disclosure: Re: Ford Motors IT Contact

[Ray P <sixsigma98 () hotmail com>]

When that stuff first showed up last year I emailed their ARIN contact and got a real person. They got back to me 
within a day and said the same thing. SQL Slammer is a single packet UDP attack so their response is 100% plausible.

Ray

> > In response to them still being infected with sql slammer and it probing 
> > my networks regularly.
> >   
> Let me guess .. it's 136.1.7.55 ?
>
> Here's what I get (from ford) every time that IP pops up in our 
> automated abuse report ..
>
> --snip--
>
> Our investigation into this matter has determined that the recent onset
> of attacks from this IP is the result of the IP being forged by an
> external party.  External parties will commonly use IP addresses that
> belong to large organizations to mask network traffic.
>
> --snip--
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Holstein
> Cleveland State University
>
>
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