On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:34:32 -0500
Steve Swantz <tclug at nwaalpa.org> wrote:

> This guys script shows the attacker a list of other machines that
> have  attacked your box. IIRC (and feel free to correct me), a lot
> of these  attacks (default.ida?) are coming not from script kiddies
> but  automatically from machines that have been compromised. So in
> effect,  you're giving the attacker a ready made list of boxes that
> may already  have backdoors on them that they may be able to
> exploit.

That's a good point, I'd guess that the majority of these are coming from comprimised hosts.  I think I'm going to .htaccess the full log and mod the script to just display the text without the IP's back to the user/script/whatever.

josh

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