RE: Chinese hackers attack - Risk Assessment?

[Petri Stephen <Stephen.Petri () nycboe net>]

So far I've only seen this reported on Wired.  The questions is; how serious
is this threat?  Any thoughts?

Stephen Petri

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Healey [mailto:rhealey () onvoy com]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:18 PM
To: Petri Stephen
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Chinese hackers plan week-long attack on American websites
and ne tworks


> .....As China and the United States attempt to peacefully end their
> diplomatic standoff ...........crackers from both countries continue to
wage
> private wars on the Internet. 
>
> ......Chinese hackers are now vowing to retaliate with a planned week-long
> all-out crack attack on American websites and networks which will start on
> May 1. .......
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43134,00.html?tw=wn20010419
        Hmmm, we've been seeing picked up activity from Chinese sites for
        well over a week now.

        They seem to be biased toward x86/Linux hacks/holes for now judging
        from attack analysis.
        
        General Port scan, DNS, HTTP and RPC hacks as well although
        specific buffer overflow/breakin code seems to be exclusively x86
for
        now.
        
        I suppose Solaris SPARC will soon follow as well as the x86 BSD's.

        -Rob
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