I almost wondered if this was going to start just before
the election as a "tech October Surprise". If you cut people
off from information, communication, etc. you control what
they know and hopefully their vote. Just like the Agents Provocateurs
in many critical US cities seem well funded and coor
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, King Beowulf wrote:
> Akamai and others don't protect against this sort of attack because there
> simply is no business case to support the expenditure (Don't even get me
> started on Yahoo). Not only do we need to be more cognizant of our own
> personal security, but we need
That is actually a well recognized economic fallacy. What it leaves
out is the fact that that money could have been spent on other things
that would improve our lives, instead of replacing perfectly good
things with no net benefit.
That is why many people oppose "alternative" energy - it will w
On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> If true, this is an example of why I could never understand economics. If
> I set fire to a bunch of buildings, the economy improves since all those
> fire fighters, demolition and construction workers are now employed. Let's
> become the richest count
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Russell Johnson wrote:
>
> ...
> Just as law enforcement won't eliminate or curtail, or in a lot of
> instances prosecute these crimes because the gain to the economy is much
> more than the losses incurred.
>
If true, this is an example of why I could never und
> On Sep 23, 2016, at 10:30, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> If it's true that the majority of DDoS attacks use compromised individual
> hosts collected into a botnet, seems to me that reducing the number of such
> compromised systems would be a good place to start.
That would seem logical.
Howeve
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, bro...@netgate.net wrote:
> It's time we start to defend our Internet borders similar to how we defend
> our actual borders. After helping to build this mess I'm convinced it's
> time to make the Internet a much smaller place. Still allowing anyone
> access, but for most servi
On 09/23/2016 09:08 AM, bro...@netgate.net wrote:
>
> From: STRUCTURE EVENTS Newsletter
>
> -
> KREBSONSECURITY HIT WITH RECORD DDOS
>
> Brian Krebs is one of the most hard-working and influential journalists in
> the field
From: STRUCTURE EVENTS Newsletter
-
KREBSONSECURITY HIT WITH RECORD DDOS
Brian Krebs is one of the most hard-working and influential journalists in
the field of information security, which means he has made a few enemies
o
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On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 8:24 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Smith, Cathy wrote:
> KrebsOnSecurity is still down this morning.
So I noticed.
&
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Smith, Cathy wrote:
> KrebsOnSecurity is still down this morning.
So I noticed.
> He posted this on Twitter late last night.
> It's looking likely that KrebsOnSecurity will be offline for a
> while. Akamai's kicking me off their network tonight.
And the bad guys
6 12:59 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost
>>>>> "John" == John Meissen writes:
John> rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said:
>> I would appreciate someone explaining why I might be seeing these
>> results and off
> "John" == John Meissen writes:
John> rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said:
>> I would appreciate someone explaining why I might be seeing these
>> results and offer ideas how I might once again reach his web site.
John> Because that's what his nameserver is returning as his IP
John> address. Not
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Ronald Chmara wrote:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20160922124922/http://krebsonsecurity.com/ is
> the last internet archive has, from 2016/09/22 (the comments section on
> the article go to 09/21), so it's up to the last 24 hours or so.
Thanks. That's a good URL to know.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160922124922/http://krebsonsecurity.com/ is
the last internet archive has, from 2016/09/22 (the comments section on the
article go to 09/21), so it's up to the last 24 hours or so.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Ali Corb
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Ali Corbin wrote:
> His service provider (who was suffering the affects of the attack)
> unloaded him. Until he can get back up, your only recourse is to find
> caches of the site.
Ali,
I didn't search that far since I'm not well educated on DNS. I also did
not run dig wh
l.gov
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Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 4:57 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost
His service provider (who was sufferin
His service provider (who was suffering the affects of the attack) unloaded
him. Until he can get back up, your only recourse is to find caches of the
site.
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, John Meissen wrote:
> Because that's what his nameserver is returning as his IP address. Not
> much you can do until that changes.
John,
I suspected as much. Could this be a result of the DDoS attack?
Thanks,
Rich
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rshep...@appl-ecosys.com said:
>I would appreciate someone explaining why I might be seeing these results
> and offer ideas how I might once again reach his web site.
Because that's what his nameserver is returning as his IP address. Not much you
can do until that changes.
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I realized this afternoon that I've not checked Brian Krebs' blog for a
few days so I tried to access www.krebsonsecurity.com. This pointed to
localhost, not his web site.
A web search revealed that yesterday his site suffered a massive DDoS
attack, apparently from a IOT botnet. But, his sit
On 2012-09-24 16:35, Jeff Maher wrote:
> Just an FYI
>
> Banks Warned to be Alert for Cyber attacks (09/19/2012)
> The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center
> (FS-ISAC)
> has issued a warning to US financial institutions to be alert for
> cyber
> attacks following outages on
Just an FYI
Banks Warned to be Alert for Cyber attacks (09/19/2012)
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC)
has issued a warning to US financial institutions to be alert for cyber
attacks following outages on the public websites of Bank of America and
JP Morgan
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Worked fine for me,
Of course. You're not trying to get a route from here to the bank's Web
server in Cleveland (or wherever they have it).
> You could come over to my house to connect.
It'll keep. Caught me unawares because I've not had a s
>On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Rich Shepard
>wrote:
>I'm sure it will work for others: https://www.key.com/
Worked fine for me, that is, the Key Bank login page popped right up
in Firefox. I'm on Comcast in Portland.
You could come over to my house to connect.
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, wes wrote:
> it works for me, and my traceroute stops in approximately the same place:
> 1356 ms54 ms57 ms cr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.86.198]
> 1456 ms54 ms57 ms cr1.sc1ca.ip.att.net [12.122.30.121]
> 1556 ms57 ms54 ms cr2.sc1ca.ip.att.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, wes wrote:
>
> > ... see if your distro's package repository includes a utility named
> > tcptraceroute, which will more closely resemble the real traffic your web
> > browser generates and be more likely to represent the
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, wes wrote:
> ... see if your distro's package repository includes a utility named
> tcptraceroute, which will more closely resemble the real traffic your web
> browser generates and be more likely to represent the path that traffic
> takes.
Wes,
There's only /usr/doc/trac
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>For the past couple of days I've not been able to connect to my bank's
> web
> site. Running traceroute shows me that once I get to an AT&T server in San
> Francisco nothing more happens:
>
>
unfortunately traceroute does not give a reliabl
For the past couple of days I've not been able to connect to my bank's web
site. Running traceroute shows me that once I get to an AT&T server in San
Francisco nothing more happens:
13 cr1.sffca.ip.att.net (12.122.86.198) 118.554 ms 74.705 ms 108.925 ms
14 cr1.sc1ca.ip.att.net (12.122.30.1
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Rich Shepard wrote:
> If you're interested, please contact me off the list and I'll give you
> the details I can so you can give me the price for your service.
I've got this arranged.
Rich
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Right now my company web site is hosted on aracnet.com and built using
xhtml and css. I was in the process of developing a better looking site
using CMS Made Simple when postgres-9.x was released. This broke the CMSMS;
apparently the ADOdb layer and the folks on that mail list showed no
interest
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Dale Snell wrote:
> BTW, Rich, what version of Emacs are you using? According to EmacsWiki,
> org-mode is part of GNU Emacs since v22.1. I just tried it, and yes, it's
> there. I'm using v23.2.1, which is the latest for Fedora 14.
Dale,
23.something. My research revealed
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:44:20 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Fernando Freire wrote:
>
> > Downloaded fine for me, did you perhaps mean to wget from
> > http://orgmode.org/ instead? Navigated to the website just
> > fine, too.
>
>Er, yep. In defense of my apparently in
Interesting.. I just tried it and got a 404 error...
Jason
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Fernando Freire wrote:
>
> > Downloaded fine for me, did you perhaps mean to wget from
> > http://orgmode.org/ instead? Navigated to the website just fine, too.
>
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Fernando Freire wrote:
> Downloaded fine for me, did you perhaps mean to wget from
> http://orgmode.org/ instead? Navigated to the website just fine, too.
Er, yep. In defense of my apparently insufficiently awake state, I tried
wget only after 4 attempts from their web sit
Downloaded fine for me, did you perhaps mean to wget from
http://orgmode.org/ instead? Navigated to the website just fine, too.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'm trying to download org-mode for emacs from http://orgnode.org/. The
> Web site pages load in firefox, but I
I'm trying to download org-mode for emacs from http://orgnode.org/. The
Web site pages load in firefox, but I cannot download
http://orgnode.org/orgnode-7.7.tar.gz because both firefox and wget cannot
find that name to resolve to an IP address. Neither host nor whois can find
it.
Can someone
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Dan Young wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
> wrote:
>> On FreeBSD, it's "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 reload", which does a
>> soft reload rather than a hard server down-up cycle. Might be something
>> similar in Linux.
>
> The Fedora/Re
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
wrote:
> On FreeBSD, it's "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 reload", which does a
> soft reload rather than a hard server down-up cycle. Might be something
> similar in Linux.
The Fedora/Redhat Apache httpd initscript's "reload" actually HUPs it,
wh
> "Marvin" == Marvin Kosmal writes:
Marvin> On 4/7/11, Tim wrote:
>>> I am quickly running into a brick wall.. I did create this file and
>>> it didn't help..
>>>
>>> I posted my config file yesterday.. Which I cleaned up and
>>> doesn't even have the old web site that still comes up.
On 4/7/11, Tim wrote:
>> I am quickly running into a brick wall.. I did create this file and
>> it didn't help..
>>
>> I posted my config file yesterday.. Which I cleaned up and
>> doesn't even have the old web site that still comes up..
>
> This may be obvious, but just to be sure: You did
>
>
> I am quickly running into a brick wall.. I did create this file and
> it didn't help..
>
> I posted my config file yesterday.. Which I cleaned up and
> doesn't even have the old web site that still comes up..
>
>
Others suggested verifying that the DNS records are correct. Have you done
> "Tim" == Tim writes:
Tim> Marvin, once you get things working, consider moving those .htaccess
Tim> settings back into the vhost config, and then disable AllowOverride
Tim> (the setting which allows .htaccess files to work) entirely.
I wrote a tool once that looked at every .htaccess fil
> I am quickly running into a brick wall.. I did create this file and
> it didn't help..
>
> I posted my config file yesterday.. Which I cleaned up and
> doesn't even have the old web site that still comes up..
This may be obvious, but just to be sure: You did restart Apache
after making t
Marvin
Kosmal wrote:
> I am quickly running into a brick wall.. I did create
this file and
> it didn't help..
>
> I posted my
config file yesterday.. Which I cleaned up and
> doesn't even
have the old web site that still comes up..
>
> I cleaned my
history on my browser
>
> I may
On 4/7/11, Tim wrote:
>> > I can't find .htaccess in root path..
>>
>> Marvin,
>>
>>Create it. Any text editor, or cat, will do the job.
>
>
> I actually recommend against using .htaccess files for most sites,
> unless you have very specific requirements about allowing lots of less
> privilege
> > I can't find .htaccess in root path..
>
> Marvin,
>
>Create it. Any text editor, or cat, will do the job.
I actually recommend against using .htaccess files for most sites,
unless you have very specific requirements about allowing lots of less
privileged users directly edit your web roo
On 4/6/11, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>
>> Just discovered a problem with my web site..
>> If I enter www.website.info I get the correct stuff
>> If I enter website.info I get another one of my sites not the right one.
>
> Marvin,
>
>Looks to me like yo
On 4/6/11, wes wrote:
>>
>> I have them the other way..
>>
>>
> it would be nice if you could post your entire virtualhost config entry. you
> can sanitize it by replacing names specific to your setup with placeholders.
>
> -wes
The file is called httpd-vhost.conf
File location
/etc/apache2/si
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> I can't find .htaccess in root path..
Marvin,
Create it. Any text editor, or cat, will do the job.
Rich
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>
> I have them the other way..
>
>
it would be nice if you could post your entire virtualhost config entry. you
can sanitize it by replacing names specific to your setup with placeholders.
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On 4/6/11, wes wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am running apache2..
>>
>
>
>
> how are you defining your virtualhost? ServerName www.website.info?
>
> Apache does not make any assumptions about different hostnames pointing to
> the same place. You have to have both a ServerName and a ServerAlias if you
> want t
>
>
> I am running apache2..
>
how are you defining your virtualhost? ServerName www.website.info?
Apache does not make any assumptions about different hostnames pointing to
the same place. You have to have both a ServerName and a ServerAlias if you
want to use both names. I usually use the bas
On 4/6/11, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>
>> Just discovered a problem with my web site..
>> If I enter www.website.info I get the correct stuff
>> If I enter website.info I get another one of my sites not the right one.
>
> Marvin,
>
>Looks to me like yo
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard
wrote
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>
> > Just discovered a problem with my web site..
> > If I enter www.website.info I get the correct stuff
> > If I enter website.info I get another one of my sites not the right one.
>
>
Verify the A record and CNAME point to the same IP.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>
> > Just discovered a problem with my web site..
> > If I enter www.website.info I get the correct stuff name>
> > If I enter website.info I ge
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> Just discovered a problem with my web site..
> If I enter www.website.info I get the correct stuff
> If I enter website.info I get another one of my sites not the right one.
Marvin,
Looks to me like you need an .htaccess file in your document ro
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 03:48:15PM -0700, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> Just discovered a problem with my web site..
>
> If I enter www.website.info I get the correct stuff
>
> If I enter website.info I get another one of my sites not the right one.
>
> Based on that information does anyone have a
Hi
Just discovered a problem with my web site..
If I enter www.website.info I get the correct stuff
If I enter website.info I get another one of my sites not the right one.
Based on that information does anyone have a clue?
I have none.. Don't know if it has always behaved this way.
I am
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> In the interim, I hope we can have a fruitful discussion on the list about
> how we would treat the wiki, what would be out of bounds, etc.
Initially, at least, have a page where recruiters can post available jobs
and another page where un-/underemp
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:45:34PM -0800, Larry Brigman wrote:
> Why does the bottom of the page have PLUG web page have such an old
> next meeting date on it?
>
> Also the Advanced Topics meeting place is currently wrong.
>
> Can we get that corrected?
Aaron Burt has volunteered to work with Wi
Why does the bottom of the page have PLUG web page have such an old
next meeting date on it?
Also the Advanced Topics meeting place is currently wrong.
Can we get that corrected?
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