nanog mailing list archives

RE: advise on network security report


From: "Mike Callahan" <mcallahan () bullseyetelecom net>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:09:59 -0500


I beg to differ, wither I aggregate my announcements does not impact the 
$50B charge identity theft puts on the US economy.

Perhaps a better start on impacting this would be for the credit card companies to pursue the people that abuse their 
cards/systems instead of just writing fraudulent purchases off as a loss and not pursuing them any further.  I been 
through it myself and I know for a fact that at least one major cc company operates in this way.   In this model 
there's nothing to discourage someone from using stolen numbers.  Just my $.02

~M

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
Rick Wesson
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:02 PM
To: Barry Greene (bgreene)
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: advise on network security report



Barry Greene (bgreene) wrote:
Postings like this to NANOG will not have any impact. So if your goal is
instigate action, posting is not going to work. The core data point is
the weekly CIDR report. It only works if you have peers using the weekly
list to apply peer pressure to the networks listed to act. 

I beg to differ, wither I aggregate my announcements does not impact the 
$50B charge identity theft puts on the US economy.

would it assist if I associated a dollar value for each bot hosted, we 
can estimate the number of credit cards stolen per bot and extrapolate 
in to something with some zeros on it.


Sharing summaries to communities like dshield, NSP-SEC, DA, SANs and
other security mitigation communities along with a subscription web page
that would allow an organization to get enough details to take action.

nsp-sec players still won't let us in their sand-box... but we will 
share to the communities you have enumerated.


-rick


Current thread: