Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-25 Thread Vedanta Teacher
I almost wondered if this was going to start just before the election as a "tech October Surprise". If you cut people off from information, communication, etc. you control what they know and hopefully their vote. Just like the Agents Provocateurs in many critical US cities seem well funded and

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, King Beowulf wrote: > Akamai and others don't protect against this sort of attack because there > simply is no business case to support the expenditure (Don't even get me > started on Yahoo). Not only do we need to be more cognizant of our own > personal security, but we need

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-24 Thread jim karlock
That is actually a well recognized economic fallacy. What it leaves out is the fact that that money could have been spent on other things that would improve our lives, instead of replacing perfectly good things with no net benefit. That is why many people oppose "alternative" energy - it will

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > If true, this is an example of why I could never understand economics. If > I set fire to a bunch of buildings, the economy improves since all those > fire fighters, demolition and construction workers are now employed. Let's > become the richest

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-24 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Russell Johnson wrote: > > ... > Just as law enforcement won't eliminate or curtail, or in a lot of > instances prosecute these crimes because the gain to the economy is much > more than the losses incurred. > If true, this is an example of

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread Russell Johnson
> On Sep 23, 2016, at 10:30, Rich Shepard wrote: > > If it's true that the majority of DDoS attacks use compromised individual > hosts collected into a botnet, seems to me that reducing the number of such > compromised systems would be a good place to start. That

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, bro...@netgate.net wrote: > It's time we start to defend our Internet borders similar to how we defend > our actual borders. After helping to build this mess I'm convinced it's > time to make the Internet a much smaller place. Still allowing anyone > access, but for most

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread King Beowulf
On 09/23/2016 09:08 AM, bro...@netgate.net wrote: > > From: STRUCTURE EVENTS Newsletter > > - > KREBSONSECURITY HIT WITH RECORD DDOS > > Brian Krebs is one of the most hard-working and influential journalists in > the

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread brooks
From: STRUCTURE EVENTS Newsletter - KREBSONSECURITY HIT WITH RECORD DDOS Brian Krebs is one of the most hard-working and influential journalists in the field of information security, which means he has made a few enemies

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread Smith, Cathy
[mailto:plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 8:24 AM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Smith, Cathy wrote: > KrebsOnSecurity is still down thi

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Smith, Cathy wrote: > KrebsOnSecurity is still down this morning. So I noticed. > He posted this on Twitter late last night. > It's looking likely that KrebsOnSecurity will be offline for a > while. Akamai's kicking me off their network tonight. And the bad

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread Smith, Cathy
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost >>>>> "John" == John Meissen <j...@meissen.org> writes: John> rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said: >> I would appreciate someone explaining why I mig

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread Russell Senior
> "John" == John Meissen writes: John> rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said: >> I would appreciate someone explaining why I might be seeing these >> results and offer ideas how I might once again reach his web site. John> Because that's what his nameserver is returning as his IP

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Ronald Chmara wrote: > https://web.archive.org/web/20160922124922/http://krebsonsecurity.com/ is > the last internet archive has, from 2016/09/22 (the comments section on > the article go to 09/21), so it's up to the last 24 hours or so. Thanks. That's a good URL to know.

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Ronald Chmara
https://web.archive.org/web/20160922124922/http://krebsonsecurity.com/ is the last internet archive has, from 2016/09/22 (the comments section on the article go to 09/21), so it's up to the last 24 hours or so. On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Ali Corbin wrote: > His service provider (who was suffering the affects of the attack) > unloaded him. Until he can get back up, your only recourse is to find > caches of the site. Ali, I didn't search that far since I'm not well educated on DNS. I also did not run dig

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Smith, Cathy
-Original Message- From: plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Ali Corbin Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 4:57 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost His service pr

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Ali Corbin
His service provider (who was suffering the affects of the attack) unloaded him. Until he can get back up, your only recourse is to find caches of the site. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, John Meissen wrote: > Because that's what his nameserver is returning as his IP address. Not > much you can do until that changes. John, I suspected as much. Could this be a result of the DDoS attack? Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread John Meissen
rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said: >I would appreciate someone explaining why I might be seeing these results > and offer ideas how I might once again reach his web site. Because that's what his nameserver is returning as his IP address. Not much you can do until that changes.

[PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
I realized this afternoon that I've not checked Brian Krebs' blog for a few days so I tried to access www.krebsonsecurity.com. This pointed to localhost, not his web site. A web search revealed that yesterday his site suffered a massive DDoS attack, apparently from a IOT botnet. But, his