spamversand

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.

..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.

As Heise reported, there ia a possible login-bug in MySQL. Enough trials lead to a login without a valid password. At least some distributions are vulnerable (reports from “hetzner” vserver customers).

Next week the 25th MAAWG meeting will take place in Berlin.
Let’s see what news can be learned there.

This morning, 10:28 a.m. a new domain got created:

Updated Date: 25-may-2012
Creation Date: 25-may-2012
Expiration Date: 25-may-2013

Same day, a few hours later:

No match for “domain”.
>>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:56 UTC <<<

So much work for the spammer:

and after about 50 clicks the domain was already removed..
money earned? .. none 🙂

I am very impressed by the emulation of the “Mini Moog” Synthesizer presented as the Goggles “Doodle” of today – including a 4-track recorder .. whow!

I remember the times when I actually played a Mini Moog back in the 70’s 🙂