Network Security Blog

I remember when I was a child (no comments from the peanut gallery), my parents were into Citizen Band (CB) radios. They performed a number of modifications to their equipment that were questionable, if not downright illegal. The upshot of these modifications was that they were able to play with radio ’skip’ and communicate with other CB’ers all over the world. They kept a world map on a cork board, and every time they talked to someone in a new country or continent, they would place a pushpin on the map to show where they’d ‘been’.

I think I want to start something similar, but rather than mark the connections to other geeks, I want to start tracking the source of intrusion attempts against the networks I safeguard. Not all of them, just the attempts that are important enough to research and track. So far, in the last month I’ve had several fairly major attempts from hosts in countries like Germany, South Korea and Iran. Not to say that this is the origin of the actual hacker, but this is where the attacks are coming from.

Anyone know a program that would allow me to post a map online and then put virtual pushpins on it? This may be a fun project for some free time. Not that I have any of that.