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Hunting Hackers' Haunts

Oak Ridge National Labs is doing something I assumed had already been done -- trying to find out what ISPs and networks are favored hacker hunting grounds. The idea is that prevention and forensics work can be focused on these areas, rather than wasting time on clean networks.

The research is all based on analyzing blacklists and tracing rogue IP addresses back to their hosts. They've already found 3 ISPs that are responsible for some 6 percent of addresses on the blacklist. These guys have a lot of cleaning up to do! 

Posted on March 17, 2010 at 10:28 AM


Reader Comments

Thu, Mar 18, 2010 Larry Pacific NW

Get the B%%%%%%%'s, kill the hosts and ruin the trouble spots... the rest of us have to follow rules and regulations, why not enforce some of the same on the bad guy assisting IPS's

Wed, Mar 17, 2010 xwindowsjunkie

Well that "list" will be good only as long as it doesn't get publicized or remains un-hacked. If they wanted to really do some good, they need to go in and poison the well, kill the hosting ISP's connections to the backbone.

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