A report from a trio of known open source security analysts is out and covers the US-based Atrivo, aka Intercage. Dubbed the “US RBN” by some, Atrivo has been, to quote someone in the business: “At almost every Internet security conference, or law enforcement seminar on cyber-crime, a presentation will detail some attack, exploit, phish [...]
The folks at Wired published a story earlier today titled Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole. I recall seeing a pointer posted to the NANOG mailing list a few weeks back with some slides that were presumably the DEFCON presentation associated with the talk. After a terse look at the slides, I quickly moved on believing nothing [...]
Just a few items that popped into my reading list this morning: The Summer Storm, a short piece on what a Storm infected host did. From Symantec’s blog. ” Seventy-seven megabytes of network traffic, 356 spam emails sent and 10,082 unique IP addresses contacted. All in just under 60 minutes.” The Georgia attacks are still [...]