The anti-abuse working group of RIPE has reported that the controversial european project “CleanIT”
has closed off:
“The project was closed in March, [..] mentioned that the document explicitly states that they do not believe that filtering and blocking is a way to deal with on-line terrorism and the promotion of terrorist activities that the project was trying to solve. “
Sounds like good news..
Warning: there is an openssl-bug floating around – but don’t tell anyone without explicit permission.
.. says the the german BSI, totally ignoring the fact that the exploit for this bug is public available, including the announcement on bugtraq and full disclosure…
The famous mailing list “full disclosure” closes its doors – John Cartwright, the Founder and maintainer
of the list announced the closing of the lis today.
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I’m not willing to fight this fight any longer. It’s getting harder to operate an open forum in today’s legal climate, let alone a
security-related one. There is no honour amongst hackers any more.
There is no real community. There is precious little skill. The
entire security game is becoming more and more regulated. This is all
a sign of things to come, and a reflection on the sad state of an
industry that should never have become an industry.
I’m suspending service indefinitely. Thanks for playing.
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Sad, but true .. I will miss this valuable source of information.
The BSI did announce the leak of 16 million accounts and offered a check
on their website to let people see if their account were hit.
https://www.sicherheitstest.bsi.de/
Now abusix did open their LeakDB with 200-300 million of
leaked account data. If you want to check if your data may be compromised:
Brasil is doing something against spam .. They rolled out a nation wide
port 25 filtering, which hits fully in december.
Read more on
http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/vida-digital/usuario-de-internet-pode-ajudar-no-combate-ao-spam
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/current-ripe-documents/ripe-563 :
Finally RIPE has decided to acept the latest proposals, which is GOOD! 🙂
Abstract:
This policy originated from the work of the Abuse Contact Management Task Force. The task force examined the collection and maintenance of resource registration information in the RIPE Database, including potential areas for improvement and alternative approaches. This policy introduces a new contact attribute named "abuse-c:”, that can be included in inetnum, inet6num and aut-num objects.
Found an interesting website dealing with malware-analysis:
http://websiteanalystsresource.wordpress.com/
Seems like a good source for information.
..start tomorrow at the Phantasialand near Cologne. Too bad that
that abuse-team meeting and the meeting of the email security group
takes place simultaneously. Guess I have to throw the dice to decide where to go..
Interesting article here.
From the article: “Wording is purposefully crafted to generate attention.”
Regardless of the announcement in
http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/announcements/update-regarding-the-reverse-dns-services-issues there is still a problem regarding different ipv4-reverse ranges.
Somehow RIPE lost them..:-(
Let us see when they really have fixed the problem.