Crazy Firewall Log Activity — What Does It Mean?

arkowitz writes "I happened to have access to five days worth of firewall logs from a US state government agency. I wrote a parser to grab unique IPs out, and sent several million of them to a company called Quova, who gave me back full location info on every 40th one. I then used Green Phosphor's Glasshouse visualization tool to have a look at the count of inbound packets, grouped by country of origin and hour. And it's freaking crazy looking. So I made the video of it and I'm asking the Slashdot community: What the heck is going on?"

Comments

re Firewall?

[jelizondo]

Crazy Firewall Log Activity — What Does It Mean?

Maybe it is the Great Firewall of China?

Re:re Firewall?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why was this modded down? Right now, China is where the bulk of attacks are coming from. And considering that China will not offer up their logs, it COULD be from their firewall. historically, China has been willing to offer up evidence to disprove many weird things, but not on these.

obviously

[flyneye]

It's a Denial of Reality attack from Democratic Chinese Youth for Christ protesting Iraqi Bacon Bits embargo.
Go figure. You could probably blame Hillbillary Clinton for refusing to recognize Constitutional Rights. I'm sure the attack will subside when we send Sen. Tedward Kennedy over to give swimming lessons. This international diplomacy thing isn't hard to figure out. We'll just let the Wichita Air Nat'l Guard fire up their Windoze boxes and challenge them to a round of GO.

Re:obviously

[AlexWillisson]

Where are mod points when you need them? Parent desperately needs to be modded something OTHER than informative.

Re:Another Slashdot Ad?

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashvertisements are not a new thing.

What's going on?

[Blakey Rat]

So I made the video of it and I'm asking the Slashdot community: What the heck is going on?

You badly need a new hobby.

kdawson nuff said

[slyborg]

I'd filter the guy, but looks like he posted half the stories today. Seriously, /. kind of has jumped the shark a while ago, they are seriously in need of some competition. The laziness level is getting astronomical.

Re:Skylab Shreds

[Anonymous Coward]

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The helmet of a gladiator from olden time.
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A symbol of manhood and all that is right.
You may choose to snicker or call me a queer.
Make no mistake; I don't take it in the rear

Re:Skylab Shreds

[Anonymous Coward]

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To my ass your cock has laid waste;
Mom still thinks that I am chaste ;)

Re:Skylab Shreds

[Anonymous Coward]

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An Attempt at a Hardware Executable

[not_hylas( )]

An Attempt at a Hardware Executable:

I've notices like kinds of this type of programing in "dead" boot block areas in disks, spirals, grids, pseudo (IDE) worlds.
Got to run, check my nick for more:

http://slashdot.org/~not_hylas(+)/

A friends site:

http://subversionhack.livejournal.com/

Re:That wasn't complaining. THIS is complaining.

[arkowitz]

All you have to do is click once on the green cube at the origin and you have the description of the axes... but as that is not enough, I am going to add a feature with better axis descriptions. Optional of course. :)