[vox] [OT] Report Hackers?

[Ryan]

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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 09:18 pm, Robert G. Scofield=20
rscofield-at-afes.com |lugod| wrote:
> This evening my son was on the family computer (Win98) and in an hour and=
 a
> half got two messages from Norton Firewall stating that someone at
> 130.161.43.249 was trying to connect to a port commonly used by a Trojan
> horse.  The second time the IP address was 130.161.43.249: 3392.
>
> I assume that this is a dynamically assigned address and that it's not
> possible to figure out who the hacker is.  But is one supposed to report
> these IP addresses somewhere?  Or does one just forget about it?

You can punch an ip address in to samspade.org (or use whois) to find out w=
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the network administrator is, and send off a complaint, but it's not much=
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use. Most h4x0rs scan from zombies, so it's just a game of whack-a-mole.

That particular IP address is from a Ducth University.

Abuse contact is abuse@tudelft.nl
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