On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote:> > > Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts. >Better fight with bits than blood. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3
James B. Byrne wrote:> > On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote: >> >> Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts. > > Better fight with bits than blood.Yes, but... attacks on the friggin' IoT could result in lots of blood. Or, less so, what do you mean all the rail lines have been knocked out of commission for a week, and we can't get food to the eastern half of the country? Or power? mark
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 11:08 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:> On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote: > > > > > > Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts. > > > > Better fight with bits than blood.Agreed. One of my Apache defences is to redirect probes/hacks to 127.0.0.1 :-) Another is to use sudo to block their IPs. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 12:54 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> James B. Byrne wrote: > > > > On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote: > >> > >> Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts. > > > > Better fight with bits than blood. > > Yes, but... attacks on the friggin' IoT could result in lots of blood. Or, > less so, what do you mean all the rail lines have been knocked out of > commission for a week, and we can't get food to the eastern half of the > country? Or power?(1) For national infrastructures, a "parallel" Internet-type communications network, totally isolated from the real Internet. (2) Governments should educate their country's computer people to recognise vulnerabilities and how to block them; too many self-declared "komputar xperts" haven't a clue about robust security. Query: How did the Reds get into the Democrats computer systems ? Hope it wasn't a Redhat/Centos system but an 'open Windoze' set-up. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 04:23:05PM +0000, Always Learning wrote:> > Agreed. One of my Apache defences is to redirect probes/hacks to > 127.0.0.1 :-)Would you be willing to share this rewrite rule with the list, please? Some may find it useful. Thank you. John -- It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher. -- Prince Rogers Nelson (7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016), funk/rock/pop/R&B singer, songwriter, and actor, Tavis Smiley Show, PBS (27 April 2009) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20170109/2aa194fd/attachment-0001.sig>
> -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Always > Learning > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 11:23 AM > To: Centos <centos at centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue> > On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote: > > > > > > > > > Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts.> > Better fight with bits than blood. > > Agreed. One of my Apache defenses is to redirect probes/hacks to > 127.0.0.1 :-)I'm redirecting some things to www.fbi.gov as well as 127.0.0.1 here, plus using mod_geoip, ipset, and the mother of all network level blacklists in ipset. One large list that cut the number of attacks was blocking ALL Amazon AWS services. That reduced attacks by at least half. -- Cinderella works for the CIA.