Definitely (finally) a mark in the win column for the good guys!!! Matt
Paul Ferguson wrote: > Brian Krebs add some late updates to his "Security Fix" article > from Friday 5 September 2008: > > [snip] > > Update, Sunday, Sept. 7, 8:02 p.m.: I spoke today with Randy Epstein, > president of WVFiber and co-founder of Host.net, which acquired WVFiber > just six weeks ago. Epstein said after reading reports from Security Fix, > Hostexploit.com, Spamhaus.org and others about cyber crime activities at > Atrivo, WVFiber has decided to drop Atrivo as a customer. WVFiber plans to > stop providing upstream connectivity to Atrivo by Wednesday or Thursday at > the latest, Epstein said. That would leave Atrivo with just a single > upstream provider -- Bandcon. > > Update, Sunday, Sept. 7, 9:15 p.m.: nLayer Communications, a company that > owns a significant slice of the Internet addresses used by > Atrivo/Intercage, is demanding that Atrivo vacate the space and return the > addresses by Sept 30. > > "Atrivo/Intercage has not been a direct customer of nLayer Communications > since December 2007, but they still have some legacy reallocations from our > IP space," wrote nLayer co-founder Richard A. Steenbergen, in an e-mail to > Security Fix. "Since they are no longer a customer, we require that they > return our non-portable IP space, and have given them a deadline of > September 30th to do so. If the IP space is not returned by that point, we > will follow standard procedure to reclaim it, including null routing the > space, and sending cease and desist letters to any network who still > transits it without our permission." > > According to Steenbergen, Atrivo/Intercage must return roughly 7,400 IP > addresses. > > [snip] > > Ref: > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/09/scam-heavy_us_isp_grow > s_more_i.html > > FYI, > > - ferg > -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. -- -------------------------------------------- Matthew Jonkman Emerging Threats Phone 765-429-0398 Fax 312-264-0205 http://www.emergingthreats.net -------------------------------------------- PGP: http://www.jonkmans.com/mattjonkman.asc _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
