full-disclosure - RE: Attack profiling tool?

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From: list.fulldisclosure at webscreen-technology.com (Gareth Blades)
Subject: RE: Attack profiling tool?

> From: Abraham Lincoln [mailto:sunninja@...entist.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 03:19
> To: Gareth Blades
> Subject: Re: Attack profiling tool?
>    no need for a expensive technology. block port 443 or if not
> possible use a proactive security module that would circumvent
> such attacks eg: linux security module that would intercept all
> calls if abnormal just kill it :) Not using expensive and
> signature/rule based technology. Like Anti-Virus its a protection
> against yesterday's threat as morning_wood say heh

That will not work very effectivly against this type of attack. There are
tools you can use (and quite a good module for apache) which can be used to
limit the number of connections from particular clients. However if you set
the limit too low you block people coming in via the big proxy servers. If
you set the limit too high then the maximum number of connections can be
reached with a relativly small number of machines.