“Security for the home network is your responsibility. With all
the tools available to the crackers and script kiddies, it is not a
matter of if but rather when you will be probed and possibly
attacked. I have personally been connected via modem for less than
5 minutes and been port scanned! Your ISP really does not care if
you are being attacked by “x” because if they shut down “x”,
tomorrow it will be “y” attacking you. Fortunately there are
several things you can do to greatly increase the security of your
network…”
“Why crack me? Most of us believed, at one time, that we were so
insignificant that a cracker would not waste his time with us.
Additionally, there are so many computers connected to the internet
that the odds of being cracked were virtually nil. Five years ago
that was probably a correct assessment. With the advent of the
script kiddies, this is no longer true. The tools available to them
make it so easy to find and crack systems that anyone who can turn
on a computer can do it.“
“There are two main reasons they may want to crack your home
system: the thrill of another conquest, and to get information to
use your ISP account to launch other attacks. Life will become
distinctly unpleasant when the authorities come to your door
investigating why you were using your ISP account to break into the
pentagon.”