Re: [Full-disclosure] Brute force attack - need your advice

["Peter Dawson" <slash.pd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok yeah I hear u on the jump points vectors. Makes sense !

On Feb 11, 2008 5:10 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:57:40 EST, Peter Dawson said:
>
> > WTF is worth the time/$$$  to intrude into abilashpraveen.com eh ??
>
> If you're a black hat, it's often worth a *LOT* to see your actual
> high-value
> target say:
>
> "WTF is abilashpraveen.com and how come they just hacked us?"
>
> Remember - an uninteresting host has actual value to a black hat -
> everything
> from a throw-away jump point for launching an attack, to sending spam, to
> hosting the websites the spam points back to, and other creative uses.
>  And
> the *more* uninteresting it is, the *more* likely that it's running on
> autopilot
> and the hacking won't be noticed....
>

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