Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-05 Thread Danny McPherson
On Aug 5, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: Hopefully, by their nature SPs will always be a bit reactive. Unless I want them to, I don't want SPs messing with my traffic. Its my right to connect anything I want, send anything I want, do anything I want with my Internet connection. On

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-05 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Danny McPherson wrote: > Right, hence my point. By and large, SPs don't have the time or > resources to police the greater Internet, and therefore, they respond > in a very reactive fashion when some malicious activity *that* warrants > action dictates. Taking out known botne

Re: Equinix / Servercentral.net / Micfo POC

2006-08-05 Thread Mark Foster
For the record folks I did get a response from the appropriate parties, and wasy very pleased given the time of day in your part of the world. Cheers all. Mark. Mark Foster wrote: Anyone from the above providers watching? I'm trying to draw attention to a phishing scam originating from 2

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-05 Thread Danny McPherson
On Aug 4, 2006, at 12:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: useless... perhaps. i'm partly of the mind that botnets, p2p networks, manets, and other self-organizing systems are the "wave" of the future (or even the present) and the technologies, per se, are not inherently "evil" or ev

RE: Anyone else lost power at Fisher Plaza this afternoon?

2006-08-05 Thread Frank Bulk
AFAIK, you don't need to have to have someone onsite to trip a breakerif it doesn't do it automatically, there are a multitude of SCADA systems available to manuaully flip them on. Unless, of course, the electromechanical components that physically flip the breaker over have failed. Frank -

Re: OT: Good list for VoIP

2006-08-05 Thread Nicolas FISCHBACH
Mike Callahan wrote: > Sorry for the OT post but I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a > good list for ISP level VoIP discussion. On that's focus is on > technical issues would be preferred. Speaking of SP and VoIP, I've just posted my BlackHat Briefings slides on Carrier VoIP Security here (P

Equinix / Servercentral.net / Micfo POC

2006-08-05 Thread Mark Foster
Anyone from the above providers watching? I'm trying to draw attention to a phishing scam originating from 205.234.128.0/17 - 'Micfo.com LLC'. Their host / upstream appear to be servercentral.net and theres a reference to an Equinix datacentre in Chicago. The +1-866 number listed doesn't a