Hello,
The following article aims to expose a booming CAPTCHA solving economy
in India, employing thousands of legitimate data processing workers,
whose business model is already being abused by cybercriminals paying
pocket money for using it :
Let's analyze the shady data processing economy of
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So...one of the networks I monitor has this ip:
66.139.73.183
Doing netbios scans on it. A cursory inspection shows it as a win2003
box...that¹s WIDE open. Could this be a honeypot that¹s been compromised?
Curious
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so do you work for Salsoft, or are you trying to break into a machine owned
by them?
If it's a network you monitor, meaning you have direct responsibility for,
wouldn't you already know if it's a honeypot?
sounds fishy that you have to ask
Exibar
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The network I monitor was getting scanned by the below IP. It stopped now
though :)
On 8/30/08 12:02 PM, Exibar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so do you work for Salsoft, or are you trying to break into a machine owned by
them?
If it's a network you monitor, meaning you have direct
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Dancho Danchev
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... Indian workers breaking MySpace and Google
CAPTCHAs,
OH MY GOD SIR
someone should make this illegal!!!
(then CAPTCHA would be secure...)
*cough*
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If nothing else, CAPTCHA is increasing the bad guys' costs of doing
business, and that's a good thing.
By two dollars per thousand email addresses. Yahoo allows 100 emails
per hour. That means that they're spending two dollars to send
2,400,000 emails per day.
Sounds pretty expensive to me.
I must stress this isn't breaking news, its been going on for years...
All the best,
n3td3v
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-32[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2008-08-31
Severity: 2
Type: Remote
Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-33[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2008-08-31
Severity: 2
Type: Remote
http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2008-August/018318.html
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4954
Hi,
I think its wrong for you to name and shame these domain names, and
specify places people live (funsec), seeing as these folks have done
nothing wrong.
Guilty until proven innocent, is
--On August 31, 2008 2:43:32 AM +0300 Razi Shaban [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If nothing else, CAPTCHA is increasing the bad guys' costs of doing
business, and that's a good thing.
By two dollars per thousand email addresses. Yahoo allows 100 emails
per hour. That means that they're spending
All i'm saying is, don't copy these idiots, Marcus Sachs and
Jon.Kibler if you are going to be talking about domain names this
hurricane season, thats the message I want to get out to folks.
While its probably most likely these domains are malicious, its wrong
to list them, so publically in this
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:51:50 BST, n3td3v said:
herders to use. I don't know if thats what the Dancho Danchev blog
post is about because I refuse to read anything by him or Zdnet.
OK, so you don't know if what we're talking about is what you're talking
about, you refuse to find out, but you
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:38 AM, n3td3v [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All i'm saying is, don't copy these idiots, Marcus Sachs and
Jon.Kibler if you are going to be talking about domain names this
hurricane season, thats the message I want to get out to folks.
While its probably most likely these
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:12:12 BST, n3td3v said:
As for domain name retailers being named and shamed on funsec, I would
be taking legal action at this stage if I was a domain name retailer,
And your legal reasoning would be, what, exactly? Even under the US's rather
wonky legal system, you
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 5:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:12:12 BST, n3td3v said:
As for domain name retailers being named and shamed on funsec, I would
be taking legal action at this stage if I was a domain name retailer,
And your legal reasoning would be, what,
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:23:00 BST, n3td3v said:
3) If accusations of domain name retailers start appearing in the
press, I don't think the domain name retailers are
going to be too happy, seeing as those customers at this stage haven't
commited any offence.
And the actual *damages* would be
On Sunday 31 Aug 2008, n3td3v wrote:
At least its giving hundreds of thousands of poor indians employment,
by paying them to manually create internet accounts for bot net
herders to use. I don't know if thats what the Dancho Danchev blog
post is about because I refuse to read anything by him
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