[wellylug] Why security for home PCs could be more important than you realise

[sljudd at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Damon Lynch <damon at dev-zone.org>:

> Hi,
> 
> I must confess I used to have the attitude of "no one would want to
> crack into my home PC"--until I read the explanation below! 

People with broadband connections are particularly preferred targets.

"Always on"
+ "poorly-adminned"
+ "good bandwidth"
= "ideal DDOS drone".

I have a cable modem, and I was horrified once I installed snort to see what
naughty people were doing (or trying to do, anyway).

snort rocks, by the way. Check it out:

http://www.snort.org/

Stephen

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