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Russian Phishers Moving to China?
Hugh Pickens writes "The Russian Business Network, an ISP and Web hosting provider based in St. Petersburg, whose client list amounts to a laundry list of organized cybercrime operations appears to have closed shop after a number of its main upstream Internet providers severed ties with the group. The disappearance of RBN comes less than a month after Brian Krebs of the Washington Post wrote a series of stories detailing the organization and history of the shadowy ISP. However, experts at anti-spam group Spamhaus say there are strong indications that a huge swath of Internet space recently established in China may soon emerge as the next incarnation of the Russian Business Network. In related news FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III gave a speech on cybercrime earlier this week where he said that the FBI has 60 Legal Attaché offices around the world working with partners in Russia, Romania,Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Estonia, among others, to investigate international cyber threats."
I know I will get modded into oblivion, but I do not care. This is precisely why I firewall the entire world (other than North America) from my server. None of the users nor myself have any legitimate contacts or interests overseas, so blocking all traffic sourcing anywhere except North America reduces the spam load by 98% and virtually eliminates intrusion attempts.
Offensive to you? Why? What legitimate need do you have to access my server? My company has absolutely nothing to interest you. Therefore, what reason could you possibly have to access my server?
Let the bloodletting begin.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Sorry, but that's not super fair. If you have been following the stories, Chinese toy makers are now suing Mattel for damaging their reputation. The toys that were recalled were built completely to spec with the designs Mattel gave them. When a toy contains many small magnets that can be swallowed, how can you blame the manufacturers, and not the designers?
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/cdaudio/2007-11/06/content_6234061.htm
Also, the latest round of recalls came from Mexico.
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/business_agriculture/story.html?id=6bbd57b0-e1d3-48d9-9a14-ebe3e6b24c04
China can make high quality electronic equipment, and they can also make low quality toys. You can't really blame them for making what they were paid to make.
If you can justify to the national ISP that unmonitored Internet access is a business requirement and are willing to pay your access more expensive you get your unmonitored access. It is not illegal, it is not bribery. I know it, my company does it.
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