A website has published a real-time map of cyber attacks as they happen. First of all, it's fascinating to watch what's going on on line. As you sit and stare at it, every so often you'll see a mass of attacks all directed at one location, perhaps coming from one location or from all over the world. Like this: It usually looks more like this: I have to wonder, though, how does this website get the information it's displaying? Or are they just making it up?
Most large data centers have folks who monitor internet traffic and watch for attacks on the local company network with commercial software. Also, there are internet appliances you stick not only inside your network, but in your DMZ that have really cool interfaces like this one to monitor what's coming into your network from the outside internet. The software at that site would have to be powerful (not to mention their actual computing power) to do this real time. I'm sure it exists, you know damn well our government has this stuff, and it's probably much better.
Some other talk of that here http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php?152016-Cyberwarfare-in-real-time
Yea it is. It's one good way of keeping an eye on those SOB's. Ran into some issues with Echtel before on my laptop -_-. VERY annoying they are.
You may not be able to counter - hack a password hacker or data miner that hacks into networks to steal passwords....but you can leave behind nasty little psychological counter-hacks in the form of passwords. One such password would be "Imgettinintoyourheadagain", or "Stillhacking", "Iknowwhereyougotoschool", "Icanseeyourreflectioninthemirrorasyouaredriving", "Iknowyourtaxicabsroute", etc. that are passive by theirself but when sifted through by hackers selling the data will be like a trip wire across the path that causes a grenade to go off.
Network Working Group R. Vida, Ed. Request for Comments: 3810 L. Costa, Ed. Updates: 2710 LIP6 Category: Standards Track June 2004 Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6 Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). Abstract This document updates RFC 2710, and it specifies Version 2 of the Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol (MLDv2). MLD is used by an IPv6 router to discover the presence of multicast listeners on directly attached links, and to discover which multicast addresses are of interest to those neighboring nodes. MLDv2 is designed to be interoperable with MLDv1. MLDv2 adds the ability for a node to report interest in listening to packets with a particular multicast address only from specific source addresses or from all sources except for specific source addresses. Basically a Remote Monitoring Program that is using technology to record all screen activities as if the other person was sitting in the same room with me watching my monitor?