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After Links To Cybercrime, Latvian ISP Cut Off

Posted by timothy on from the people-interpret-jerks-as-damage-and-route-around-them dept.

alphadogg writes with this Network World story, excerpting "A Latvian ISP linked to online criminal activity has been cut off from the Internet, following complaints from Internet security researchers. Real Host, based in Riga, Latvia was thought to control command-and-control servers for infected botnet PCs, and had been linked to phishing sites, Web sites that launched attack code at visitors and were also home to malicious 'rogue' antivirus products, according to a researcher using the pseudonym Jart Armin, who works on the Hostexploit.com Web site. 'This is maybe one of the top European centers of crap,' he said in an e-mail interview. 'It was a cesspool of criminal activity,' said Paul Ferguson, a researcher with Trend Micro."

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  1. Re:It's not criminal activity when we do it by CarpetShark · · Score: 1, Funny

    Perhaps the malice these researchers feel towards Latvia is similar in some way to the anger the RIAA feels towards filesharers?

    Well, malice towards Latvians would be xenophobia, and the RIAA definitely have a lot of phobias, so yes.

  2. Centers of Crap by xtracto · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is maybe one of the top European centers of crap,'

    The server 216.178.38.116 is an American server known to have loads of crap too! I hope they also could get it!

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    Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
  3. Re:Censorship by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    --start-bad-analogy--
    I let you watch TV at my house. But, most of the time you are there, you leave trash and shit everywhere, and fail to clean up after yourself.

    So, after enough complaints from my other guests, I decide to kick your ass out.
    --end-bad-analogy--

    Hey, fuck you. That's my shtick.

    What if I was the one providing everyone a ride that night? You just fucked over all your guests, you inconsiderate asshole.

  4. If there's one kind of cesspool I hate... by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it's a cesspool of crap.

    the other kinds are ok.

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    This space available.
  5. Re:It's not criminal activity when we do it by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought xenophobia was a fear of virtualised environments?

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    AT&ROFLMAO
  6. Re:They'll move elsewhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    The real question: is all of this gumshoe shit really easier than just fixing/securing Windows?