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The RBNexploit blog states that the website 'president.gov.ge' was under DDoS attack since Thursday. That site is now hosted out of Atlanta, Georgia (don't you love coincidence?) by Tulip Systems who is prominently displaying an AP story which says in ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
CircleID,
12 Aug 2008
All it took was a little representation. That is one trouble with the US legal system. You have to show up to defend yourself. The guys at Wikileaks.org were effecitvely put out of business by aggressive swiss bankers because they did not show up in ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
ZDNet,
29 Feb 2008
Sighs of relief can be heard coming from Brazil this week as police arrested four men (port security guards) responsible for heisting some computers that had lots of data from the newly discovered mega-oil-patch off the coast of Brazil.
Way back when I ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
ZDNet,
29 Feb 2008
The news today is that several free speech advocates are stepping into the . See Declan McCullagh’s coverage. I love his syllogism:
[Shutting down Wikileaks is] like Apple not liking CNET News.com’s scoop a few years ago (which it was) about the switch ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
ZDNet,
27 Feb 2008
According to ComputerWorld coverage Finjan is publicizing a source in Hong Kong they have discovered that offers to sell access to hacked ftp servers. The idea is that a malware purveyor or phisher would want ftp access with admin credentials so they ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
ZDNet,
27 Feb 2008
But you have to ask the right questions. Two senators have sent a letter to 24 US agencies asking them to report on their progress in data protection. This article at Federal Computer Week highlights the woeful state of security compliance at most US ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
ZDNet,
26 Feb 2008
The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan’s traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
ZDNet,
24 Feb 2008
What could at first have been just one of those days on the Internet where some newbie engineer accidentally announces a spurious route and takes out a segment of the network has turned into an international fiasco. But no, Pakastan has ordered all ISP’ ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
ZDNet,
24 Feb 2008
Like I said in a recent post, the Internet is a series of tubes. Sometimes that helps route around malicious legislation and regulators, somethings it causes big problems. Like today at 2 PM eastern when someone in Pakistan announced a more specific ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
ZDNet,
24 Feb 2008
Do you ever get the feeling that the people around you are missing out on a major shift in the way the world works? Try explaining lolcats to your grandfather for instance. I feel sorry for the powers that be in Morocco who have sentenced Fouad ...
From RICHARD STIENNON,
ZDNet,
23 Feb 2008
