GEN:SID | 1:480 |
Message | ICMP PING speedera |
Summary | Benevolent ping used by SpeedEra.net to find closest cache for you.
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Impact | Minimal to none, usually not an attack.
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Detailed Information | After visiting certain speedera.net sites, you will recieve several pings to your host. These pings are sent so that speedera can find the closest cache to your computer. This rule was added so that Snort could distinguish the usually benevolent speerera pings from normal, possibly malevolent pings.
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Attack Scenarios | This is not really an attack. However an attacker could disguise their pings as speedera pings, but this is unlikely.
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Corrective Action | None required, unless none of your users have ever visited a site run by speedera.
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