Script Kiddies III - Grilled Kiddie

Written by Michael Bloch


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A real hacker would not carry out this type of foolishness, this isrepparttar realm ofrepparttar 119023 gutless, immature Script Kiddie. It's a bit like that mindless graffitti you see sprayed all over our towns and cities.

Inrepparttar 119024 case ofrepparttar 119025 web site owner, it is imperative that you immediately contact your hosting service asrepparttar 119026 security of your site has been breached (and therefore probablyrepparttar 119027 whole server). The server's logs record allrepparttar 119028 activity on your site, and Script Kiddies are notorious for leaving "footprints" behind.

Don't just shrug your shoulders and re-publish your site. What has just occurred to you is cyber-terrorism. There are a number of laws currently being introduced world-wide that will punish cyber-terrorists severely. It is unfortunaterepparttar 119029 offences are termed cyber-terrorism. Inrepparttar 119030 case ofrepparttar 119031 Script Kiddies it should be called cyber-idiocy. It should carryrepparttar 119032 death penalty, castration or at least they should be sentenced to a life of using a 386DX40 running Windows 95 rev. A! ;0)

Some other points of contact if your site is attacked are:

National Infrastructure Protection Center. The NIPC are a part ofrepparttar 119033 FBI. On its site, there are forms that you can submit to report any incidents. It also contains up to date information on security threats and advice for ecommerce merchants.

http://www.nipc.gov/ For a more detailed listing of U.S points of contact, The Cybercrime site will have what you need:

http://www.cybercrime.gov/reporting.htm

In Australia, intrusions should be reported torepparttar 119034 Australian Federal Police via your local Police Station. Hmmm.....we're a little behindrepparttar 119035 times methinks!

Inrepparttar 119036 UK, well, I give up....couldn't find a thing except for a lot of talk. Once again, your friendly local bobby could probably help you out. If anyone does have any law enforcement reporting links forrepparttar 119037 UK or Australia, I'd be grateful forrepparttar 119038 information and would republish this article with it included.

In most countries, probablyrepparttar 119039 best second point of call after your contacting your hosting service would berepparttar 119040 Police.

The Internet community, either surfers, website owners or ecommerce merchants will only stamp out this problem if we actually do something about it. Don't let those valuable firewall logs go to waste. But if you are going to send them, ensure that what you send shows an established pattern of scans originating fromrepparttar 119041 same source - at least 5 entries in a session. Random scans are very hard to track. A topic for another article.

Make it a national sport.....Grill a Kiddie!

*ping - Ping is a basic Internet program that lets you verify that a particular IP address (a set of unique identifier numbers, e.g 192.168.0.1) exists and can accept requests

**traceroute - Traceroute is a utility that recordsrepparttar 119042 path stops throughrepparttar 119043 Internet between your computer and a specified destination computer

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How To Handle Ezine Overload...Without Turning Into An Ezine Junkie!

Written by Roger J. Burke


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And so forth, etcetera, and so on, throughrepparttar whole lot.

Byrepparttar 119022 time I'd finished, I felt great. Sherry pats me onrepparttar 119023 back, "Goooood job, now you *only* have 385 ezines to figure out what to do with!" She smiles sweetly, pityingly, at me. "You have such a wide range of ezine categories, dear, why don't you just concentrate onrepparttar 119024 ones that are truly, really, absolutely important to US?" Sherry said that last word with a lotta emphasis, so I figured I should take a long hard look atrepparttar 119025 remainder.

So, once again, I did!

OK, OK, so maybe I don't really need "The Daily Life of The Madagascar Swamp Beetle", "Secrets of Alien Life Under Your Fingernails", or "One Million and One Things To Do With Toothpicks". Click, click, click - all gone! I just hoped that I wouldn't wake up one night, screaming, wondering where my box of toothpicks was! ;()

Hours later - many hours later - fingers and brain throbbing fromrepparttar 119026 strain, I turned to Sherry, "OK, that's it, we're down torepparttar 119027 good oil,repparttar 119028 pot o'gold,repparttar 119029 top ofrepparttar 119030 heap - you name it!" Sherry looks at me *real* hard now, eyes narrowing, but still she has a smile on her face. Why do I suddenly feel worried, with a sinking feeling in my stomach?

"Well, dear, when you've finished reading each ezine, you *are* going to *delete it*...aren't you...from now on, right?" That...that...word cut torepparttar 119031 bone. I looked at her, frantically, my eyes widening in horror. Delete? DELETE? I gulped for air as she went on, "And, there'll be no more *printing* also - we do have to userepparttar 119032 bathroom sometime, right?" Again, cutting like a razor blade. No printing? NO PRINTING? The sweat began to pop from my forehead, my eyes began to glaze, I felt myself going dizzy...

"But...", she continues, almost hypnotically, "why don't you *extract* from each ezinerepparttar 119033 gems of knowledge, those pearls of wisdom, that we must have...before I let you DELETE?" I thought about that, trying to calm down...hmmm, yes, why not open up a text editor, and copy/pasterepparttar 119034 *really* good stuff to a new file. And, one for each day maybe, properly labeled with a headline, and in a special folder...or even on a diskette? Why not, indeed?

So, I did...

A few too many hours later, I beamed at Sherry, "There we are, all extracts nicely filed, *almost* all ezines deleted (hey, I'm not perfect, OK, Rome wasn't built in a day and all that, alright?), and allrepparttar 119035 *categorically* useful information can now be printed on one or maybe two pages, each day or so!" Pause... "Well, no more than three pages, tops." I smiled happily, but probably looked like an idiot. She smiled benignly and patted my hand, making soothing sounds.

"What more can I do?" I ask.

"Take out all this garbage, would you dear?"

Some things never change! :-((

Roger Burke has been involved with computers since 1967, and has managed to break quite a few, over the years. He, and his wife Sherry, are now actively engaged in online self-publishing and promoting specific affiliate programs at http://online-wealth.com . If you have any comments or questions about this article, please send emails to mailto:webmaster@online-wealth.com . Copyright 2001, Online-Wealth. All rights reserved.


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