full-disclosure - Re: Ford Motors IT Contact

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Message-ID: <BAY118-W39A050ADD0521E843AF863DDBD0@phx.gbl>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:18:52 +0000
From: Ray P <sixsigma98@...mail.com>
To: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@...ohio.edu>, Simon Smith
	<simon@...soft.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Ford Motors IT Contact

When that stuff first showed up last year I emailed their ARIN contact and got a real person. They got back to me within a day and said the same thing. SQL Slammer is a single packet UDP attack so their response is 100% plausible.

Ray

> 
> > In response to them still being infected with sql slammer and it probing 
> > my networks regularly.
> >   
> Let me guess .. it's 136.1.7.55 ?
> 
> Here's what I get (from ford) every time that IP pops up in our 
> automated abuse report ..
> 
> --snip--
> 
> Our investigation into this matter has determined that the recent onset
> of attacks from this IP is the result of the IP being forged by an
> external party.  External parties will commonly use IP addresses that
> belong to large organizations to mask network traffic.
> 
> --snip--
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael Holstein
> Cleveland State University
> 
> 
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