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 coor
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
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 w
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 count
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 why I could never und
> 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 would seem logical.
Howeve
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 servi
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 field
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
o
[mailto:plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org]
On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 8:24 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Smith, Cathy wrote:
> KrebsOnSecurity is still down this morning.
So I noticed.
&
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 guys
6 12:59 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost
>>>>> "John" == John Meissen writes:
John> rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said:
>> I would appreciate someone explaining why I might be seeing these
>> results and off
> "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
John> address. Not
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.
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 Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Ali Corb
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 wh
l.gov
-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
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost
His service provider (who was sufferin
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
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 mai
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.
___
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 sit
21 matches
Mail list logo