A report from a trio of known open source security analysts is out and covers the US-based Atrivo, aka Intercage. Dubbed the “US RBN” by some, Atrivo has been, to quote someone in the business:
“At almost every Internet security conference, or law enforcement seminar on cyber-crime, a presentation will detail some attack, exploit, phish or [...]
The folks at Wired published a story earlier today titled Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole. I recall seeing a pointer posted to the NANOG mailing list a few weeks back with some slides that were presumably the DEFCON presentation associated with the talk. After a terse look at the slides, I quickly moved on believing nothing [...]
Just a few items that popped into my reading list this morning:
The Summer Storm, a short piece on what a Storm infected host did. From Symantec’s blog. ” Seventy-seven megabytes of network traffic, 356 spam emails sent and 10,082 unique IP addresses contacted. All in just under 60 minutes.”
The Georgia attacks are still on some [...]
As of this blog posting, exactly 900 days remain until the end of the Internet, or at least the exhaustion of IPv4 registry allocations. And you don’t have to take my word for it, even the normally staid London Times and Fox News proclaimed, “Internet meltdown… The world is heading for a digital doomsday”.
Heady stuff.
Of [...]
The clashes between Russia and Georgia over the region of South Ossetia have been shadowed by attacks on the Internet. As we noted in July, the Georgia presidential website fell victim to attack during a war of words. A number of DDoS attacks have occurred in the region, and often do when tensions flare. We [...]
