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Hey everyone, i found this today on the net, and i must say it sounds really neat.
Get the full story HERE!Quote:
Free software gives hackers taste of own medicine By Team Register, The Register Apr 1 2003 7:51AM IT security specialist Backfire Security today announced the availability of a software download as a discrete desk-top client application which wreaks revenge on those hackers and culprits attacking your network or infecting users with worms and/or viruses.
Cheers.
You have been fooled, it's a aprils fool.
Why do you post this April 2nd? hehe :)
a joke :confused:
:mad: and I thought someone else found a use for Iptables "mirror"
( newbies are sooo serious )
Heh, damn. And i though i found something really sweet. Oh well, thats life.
Cheers >:-s
OK forgive me if I'm being a total muppet here but:
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The initial search terms on our friend google looks legit.
Am I being a muppet? Couldnt actually get on to the 'backfire' site Hmmmm.....
VicE$DoS$
To support what instronics said...
The software has the ability to instantly and dynamically 'trace' the IP source address - no matter how well masked - of the network attack/infection and respond by launching either a Domain Name or Mail Server flood attack in the direction of the attacker.
The freeware package - PAYBACK v1.0 - is available from www.backfiresecurity.co.uk in both PC and Mac formats.
I got error when I open the site.
*** This account has exceeded it's bandwidth quota and has been temporarily disabled***
Try visit the site quite sometimes.
You have to think about this. Most worms etc resend from innocent users. so as well as the user being stung by some nasty virus they will also get pummeled into the ground by us.
I won't be installing it april fools or not.
This is the second topic on the same board about the same hoax; they got you guys good :). Oh and its defiantly a hoax someone on /. Fallowed it out and posted a link to the final download page that admits its a hoax
yah, it reeked of April Fools to me so I decided to check it all the way out. Here is the final page after you request a download of the product, answer a short survey, and give them some personal information.
http://backfiresecurity.co.uk/aprilfool.htm
funny really funny april fools joke.
Grrr, and every year i swear to myself i will not fall for any more 1st of april hoaxes. This year i got hoaxed really hard. Specially with the 2600.com and the gov posted my msmittens. Heh. Next year will be different (once again ;) )
Cheers :D
If anyone cares to notice, the description says it launches a flood. Software that actually did that (if distributed on a large scale) would DDoS the entire 'net more effectively than the MS SQL worm. That line was all you needed to know it was a joke.
O.K.
since the newbies want to be serious
( what happened to the unix sense of humor? )
Oh, wait, I'm a newbie!
What if I took Iptables,
took all the rejected packets and sent them into "user space"
then wrote a script to append the table rules to take the IP address of those rejected packets and mirror them.
Oh, and released it under the GNU license.
Would this be like what they were talking about?? :cool:
Do you think that would bog things down a bit?? :confused:
How do you think the ISP's would react?? :eek: