Busy, but not necessarily productive. Beginning of September saw me in the US for a week, then back to the UK and busybusybusy at work.

But, I have now finished off something that's been underway, one way or another since about January. It's both a good feeling and slightly sad. I have compiled a report of the first year-or-so of the Snooper Project, essentially an attempt to determine how unused IP addresses are being scanned and probed.

The report looks at the first roughly 13 months, correlates spikes in probing activity to BugTraq reports and presents several statistical breakdowns of the raw material. It also goes into more detail for a few prolific or interesting scan sources.