And ISPs are doing NOTHING to reduce the number of zombies on their networks. So the DDOS attacks continue.
Actually ISPs, at least the one I work for, are trying to do something about the number of zombied boxes on our networks. I know this because I work in the abuse department. When we get a complaint about anything that looks like it was from a comprimised system we run Nessus on the computer in question and suspend their account. When they call in asking why their service isn't working we explain what happened adn what Nessus found.
The issue seems to be that most people complaining to us have no idea what data we need or even how to get it. Spam mails are sent to us sans-header, we get email saying "one of your customers is h@x0ring me!" and they provide no documentation. The singal to noise ratio as abysmal.
I always thought "free as in beer" came from Warner Brothers cartoons. If some kind of performance was being put on that wasn't attracting an audience, a sign reading "Free Beer" was put out front. People then came in in droves.
Both Platforms:
OpenOffice.org
Mozilla
Router w/ NAT between you and outside world
Windows:
Ad Aware
Spybot Search and Destroy
Hijack This
WinAMP
Linux:
CenterICQ
XMMS
Xine
J-Pilot
I work for a cable company that shall not be named. A while ago a coworker and I were scavaging for some computers for a project when we came across a bunch of rackmount boxes. They were P3 550's (1 cpu), and in addition to the regular PC stuff they had these strange cards in them with about four or five BNC connectors on the back.
I was told by one of the video people (I work in the internet division) that these boxes were part of an interactive television experiment that was later scrapped. The card mentioned would shuffle different video signals around, inject other stuff into the signal, etc. If it could handle several channels of video I'm certain similar hardware would do quite well with cell phones.
I don't see much of anything from SpamCop. Anything that is sent to me in the regional office is first filtered through corporate, so I have no idea what kind of raw data is coming in.
I work the abuse desk for a regional cable ISP, and end up suspending several customers accounts per day because they're either sending or relaying spam (mostly the latter, and usually unwittingly).
The majority of the complaints we get come from giant ISPs like AOL, but from time to time we get a mail header from some end user, and the ip is looked up in the dhcp log and the customer is suspended just as if AOL or RoadRunner were complaining.
The lack of curiosity in the general public that the above post panders to irritates me to no end. I simply can not understand getting in a car and "just driving" it, nor can I understand turning on a television, microwave, or washing machine and "just using" it with no thought to how it does what it does. Simply treating machines like magic boxes that do something for you is a sign of big problems with the human race. Questions aren't being asked, people just want Budweiser and American Idol. Our service-based economy is developed around getting money from these people, so the world is being built around them. Wake up, we're turing back into monkies.
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And ISPs are doing NOTHING to reduce the number of zombies on their networks. So the DDOS attacks continue.
Actually ISPs, at least the one I work for, are trying to do something about the number of zombied boxes on our networks. I know this because I work in the abuse department. When we get a complaint about anything that looks like it was from a comprimised system we run Nessus on the computer in question and suspend their account. When they call in asking why their service isn't working we explain what happened adn what Nessus found. The issue seems to be that most people complaining to us have no idea what data we need or even how to get it. Spam mails are sent to us sans-header, we get email saying "one of your customers is h@x0ring me!" and they provide no documentation. The singal to noise ratio as abysmal.
I always thought "free as in beer" came from Warner Brothers cartoons. If some kind of performance was being put on that wasn't attracting an audience, a sign reading "Free Beer" was put out front. People then came in in droves.
Many old D-Jetronic equipped cars would have the "computer" right on the firewall. D-Jet came out in 1968.
Two words: die grinder
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I work for a cable company that shall not be named. A while ago a coworker and I were scavaging for some computers for a project when we came across a bunch of rackmount boxes. They were P3 550's (1 cpu), and in addition to the regular PC stuff they had these strange cards in them with about four or five BNC connectors on the back. I was told by one of the video people (I work in the internet division) that these boxes were part of an interactive television experiment that was later scrapped. The card mentioned would shuffle different video signals around, inject other stuff into the signal, etc. If it could handle several channels of video I'm certain similar hardware would do quite well with cell phones.
I don't see much of anything from SpamCop. Anything that is sent to me in the regional office is first filtered through corporate, so I have no idea what kind of raw data is coming in.
I work the abuse desk for a regional cable ISP, and end up suspending several customers accounts per day because they're either sending or relaying spam (mostly the latter, and usually unwittingly). The majority of the complaints we get come from giant ISPs like AOL, but from time to time we get a mail header from some end user, and the ip is looked up in the dhcp log and the customer is suspended just as if AOL or RoadRunner were complaining.
The lack of curiosity in the general public that the above post panders to irritates me to no end. I simply can not understand getting in a car and "just driving" it, nor can I understand turning on a television, microwave, or washing machine and "just using" it with no thought to how it does what it does.
Simply treating machines like magic boxes that do something for you is a sign of big problems with the human race. Questions aren't being asked, people just want Budweiser and American Idol. Our service-based economy is developed around getting money from these people, so the world is being built around them.
Wake up, we're turing back into monkies.
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