Talk:Internet background noise

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On 1 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Internet background noise for a record of the discussion. —Korath (Talk) 14:57, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

I'll add some more content soon. In the past I wrote a couple articles about this [1][2], but these would be considered personal research. So I'll have to search for more reputable sources and continue expanding this page.
--Maetrics 01:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Backscatter#Backscatter from denial-of-service attacks has a section on DDoS backscatter. I feel though, that this information is useful in both articles. --Maetrics 01:15, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is the most interesting article I've ever read on wikipedia. I wish it went more in-depth. Family Guy Guy (talk) 15:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

[3] Watching the nets background radiation.

Reconnaisance is a key contributor to the Internet background noise. Our samples show that between 45% and 55% of suspicious activity is hackers scanning for targets.

[4] Article in Network World

[5] A decent paper about background noise and some modeling. --Maetrics 01:42, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please add recent information / update the article

I was told this is not so much an issue anymore with ipv6. It would be great to give this article an update amd maybe deem it as a historic issue if it is one. Erdpferd (talk) 20:06, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]