Re: [anti-abuse-wg] IPv4 squatting -- Courtesy of AS44050, AS58552

2020-12-02 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
I don’t think it’s simply a matter of two sides, which your language attempts to categorise it as. Some of us refuse to have our processes and businesses dictated to by people who won’t listen to reasonable arguments against their unworkable proposals -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solution

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] DDoS-Guard, a dodgy Russian firm that also hosts the official site for the terrorist group Hamas

2021-01-17 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Looks like Parler is now using them as well: parler.com has address 190.115.31.151 -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal blog: https://miche

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Question about spam to abuse inbox

2021-02-18 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Cynthia We’ve had to block some services from our abuse mailbox as they were sending us an insane volume of low quality reports. I’m not sure what the cut off point would be, but we’ve tried to engage with some of these services in the past and they never reply so they’re basically spammers as

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Question about spam to abuse inbox

2021-02-18 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
on behalf of Hans-Martin Mosner Date: Thursday, 18 February 2021 at 15:27 To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Question about spam to abuse inbox Am 18.02.21 um 15:02 schrieb Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg: I know quite a few companies now use specific forms

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Question about spam to abuse inbox

2021-02-18 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
From: Javier Martín Date: Thursday, 18 February 2021 at 15:40 To: Michele Neylon - Blacknight , Hans-Martin Mosner , Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Question about spam to abuse inbox Hello. The subject of abuse emails are, with few exceptions, a use

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Question about spam to abuse inbox

2021-02-18 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
few exceptions, a useless thing, it depends on the good faith of the recipient. For our part, we continue to have servers from large companies attacking us for more than 6 months and after dozens of emails no one has helped us. Regards. Javier Sobre 18/02/2021 16:33:07, Michele Neylon - Bl

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Input request for system on how to approach abuse filtering on Route Servers - bad hosters

2021-05-20 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Erik But wouldn’t creating this list involve looking at the traffic *somewhere*? Personally I’d love to see scummy providers marginalised as much as possible, but the “how” is important to get right. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Input request for system on how to approach abuse filtering on Route Servers - bad hosters

2021-05-20 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
in Europe and worldwide. laura On 20 May 2021, at 09:03, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg mailto:anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net>> wrote: Erik But wouldn’t creating this list involve looking at the traffic *somewhere*? Personally I’d love to see scummy providers marginalised as much

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] New on RIPE Labs: RIPE NCC Anti-Abuse Support - What to Do if It Happens to You

2021-05-28 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Ronald Please explain. If somebody hacks, attempts to hack, DDOS or perpetrates any other sort of cybercrime against me or my company we have to report it law enforcement. I know that they might not be able to do a huge amount about a specific incident, but we still need to report it to them,

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] False positive CSAM blocking attributed to RIPE

2021-09-28 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Jeremy While it’s possible that a network or networks might have stopped routing traffic to / from somewhere else that is a decision at the network level. It’s not something that an RIR like RIPE or ARIN can do. For example RIPE NCC has assigned my company multiple blocks of IPv4 and IPv6 space

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-18 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Brian I missed earlier emails about this. I think it would be beneficial for a lot of LIRs to get some basic training. Anything that improves the landscape should be encouraged and welcomed! 1. Would training, as described, be of interest to you? Potentially for new staff if the materials

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Fwd: [dns-wg] EU: DNS abuse study

2022-02-10 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Exactly And unfortunately this is a trend with a lot of the EC’s activities that push towards more and more regulation of digital I also find the ridiculously broad definition of abuse so broad that it renders any output without much merit. -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Co

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Proposal: Publish effective users' abuse-c

2022-02-10 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
That’s not entirely true. It’ll depend on how granular the LIR is with their allocations to their clients. Speaking on behalf of my company we do assign blocks and abuse-c contacts to quite a few of our clients. However we wouldn’t do that for every single IP address and due to the nature of so

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] RIPE NCC Anti-Abuse Training: Next Steps & WG Input!

2022-02-17 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
I disagree Some types of network activity are not going to be welcome anywhere. Some kinds of use of networks and platforms are not welcome by most people. Please show me ANY COUNTRY where CSAM is legal. And “legality” is NOT the bar. Never has been. If we don’t try to deal with this then gove

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] RIPE NCC Anti-Abuse Training: Next Steps & WG Input!

2022-02-18 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
You really want to claim that CSAM is legal somewhere? I can assure you that it is NOT -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal blog: https://m

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Someone on this list has been hacked

2022-04-14 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
It’s one of the more recent tactics being used by the “lovely” scumbags. It’s happening against multiple public mailing lists both RIPE and LINX ones so far .. probably others -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] personal data in the RIPE Database

2022-05-31 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Denis Where’s the actual proposal? I’d love to get my personal details removed – especially as they’re for an address I no longer occupy! Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] personal data in the RIPE Database

2022-06-01 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Jeroen “- Change the current contracts with all responsible companies where they will have to pay a fine if any of their ip's has been detected and confirmed to produce abusive traffic. “ That will never happen and suggesting it is not helpful. Nobody is ever going to agree to it and it’s comp

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] personal data in the RIPE Database

2022-06-02 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Jeroen RIPE policy is not decided by a vote or astro-turfing. Also what you are proposing is over simplistic and would be impossible to operationalise without bankrupting the NCC. What is "abusive traffic"? Who decides what is or is not "abusive"? Who is going to enforce this? How? Bear in

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training - Final? Draft Slides & Zoom Call

2022-08-12 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Brian et al I like the content, but I don’t see how this could be delivered in one hour. There are 55 slides. That’s roughly 1 slide per minute. Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 5

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] RIPE NCC Anti-Abuse Training A Reality!

2023-02-03 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Excellent news! -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal blog: https://michele.blog/ Some thoughts: https://ceo.hosting/

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Hijacking and Blocking of Business Users Profiles on Meta Platforms

2023-02-17 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Hank I’m a little confused. This is the RIPE anti-abuse WG. I don’t see how this issue is related to this group. Could you please explain? Thanks and regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ P

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Cost-benefit of registering reassignments

2023-04-19 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
How big an IP allocation do you have? As an LIR we routinely assign blocks of IPs to clients with more than X IPs or blocks etc., and give them their own abuse-c etc., But we wouldn’t do it for a single IP. Though tbh it sounds more like an issue with the block list than anything to do with th

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Report ignored. What to do as next?

2023-11-01 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
+1 The proposal put a massive burden on both us as members and the NCC with zero benefit to anyone. -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal bl

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Report ignored. What to do as next?

2023-11-02 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Gert That’s a massive over simplification of what happened. The NCC proposed a number of charging schemes which *included* charges per ASN. The proposal was rejected by the majority of the members who voted because the changes would have cost a lot of us significantly more than what we currentl

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Report ignored. What to do as next?

2023-11-02 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Gert The ASN cost for us would have had practically no impact – we only have two and I suspect we’re getting rid of one at some point. However the other costs that the charging schemes suggested would have cost us thousands – and that simply wasn’t acceptable Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Bla

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Report ignored. What to do as next?

2023-11-02 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Gert I think a lot of us were not going to accept ANY changes to the charging scheme that time round. Anyway .. history now .. Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Report ignored. What to do as next?

2023-11-02 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Peter Economic incentives make a lot of sense. In the domain space we’ve seen registries offering promotions that are linked to a registrar’s “rating” and it seems to work. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ htt

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] URGENT

2023-11-28 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Sorry, but “on your website” – do you mean in the email list archives? Also this is the RIPE anti-abuse WG – we have no power to do anything, so I’m not sure what you’re expecting. If you think there is something illegal being done by an operator I’d recommend you report it to the police. Rega

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] URGENT

2023-11-28 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Simone We do not have any power to do anything. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal blog: https://michele.blog/ Some thoug

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Report ignored. What to do as next?

2023-11-29 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Jordi Can you please provide links to the policies that were implemented elsewhere. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal b

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Report ignored. What to do as next?

2023-12-03 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Please provide actual data. Numbers -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal blog: https://michele.blog/ Some thoughts: https://ceo.hosting/

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Report ignored. What to do as next?

2023-12-04 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
sn't work. Fact is, that other players have changed once pressure has been upped. Cheers Serge On 3 December 2023 09:48:43 UTC, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg wrote: Please provide actual data. Numbers -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Coloc

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Draft RIPE87 Minutes for Consideration

2023-12-21 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
It’s 2023 and Word is fairly commonly used by a lot of people. What format do you propose be used? -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal blog

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Bulletproof servers causing mischief on the internet

2024-01-19 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Both registries and registrars that are accredited by ICANN have contracts with clear clauses related to abuse and their responsibility towards reports etc., As of right now no such requirement exists in the RIPE region, so I’m not sure that the parallel is a good one. In an ideal world self-reg

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Call for Nominations: Co-Chair of the Anti-Abuse Working Group

2024-03-06 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Is Brian term limited? -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ http://ceo.hosting/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 --- Blacknight Interne

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] IS3C public consultation on an alternative narrative to deploy Internet standards

2024-03-11 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
They’re two very different things so asking about the two and pushing for them at the same time in my view is a bad idea. RPKI is only going to be deployed by network operators and they *should* have the technical ability to do this and doing so is “good” DNSSEC, on the other hand, is available

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] IS3C public consultation on an alternative narrative to deploy Internet standards

2024-03-11 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Serge Several ccTLD registries have given discounts for DNSSEC. What is unclear is how many of the domains with DNSSEC enabled are in active use, so the lack of “problems” could be simply down to a complete lack of us / ignorance that the technology was enabled. My main issue with focus on DNS

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Seeking Input on the Future of the Anti-Abuse Working Group

2024-03-25 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Markus There should be a simple “continue as now” option, though I do appreciate that opening a discussion on the WG’s future could be useful Expanding the group’s scope – okay, but to what? And to what end? Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domai

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Reverse DNS delegations

2024-04-05 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Have you asked them to setup PTR records? We usually do it for our clients, so I’ve no idea how others handle it -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Reverse DNS delegations

2024-04-05 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
from unrecognised sources. On Fri 05/Apr/2024 14:41:01 +0200 Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg wrote: > Have you asked them to setup PTR records? I did so for IPv4. They're unable to delegate but can set PTRs. For IPv6, they don't have delegation for their own range, s

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] LEA Transparency Report 2023

2024-04-10 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Serge The report speaks about French LEA asking RIPE for data that RIPE does not have. You then go off on some complete tangent about governments not being satisfied with tech companies. How are the two related? What purpose does asking RIPE (or anyone else) for data they simply do not have s

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] LEA Transparency Report 2023

2024-04-10 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
ised sources. LEA especially the computer crime part of LEA has been dealing with RIRs for some decades now? The specifics of this case would be interesting. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg Sent: Wednesday, A

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] LEA Transparency Report 2023

2024-04-10 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Serge As I said, it’s an odd attempt at making a point, if that’s what it is. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal blog: ht

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Co-Chair selection

2024-05-07 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Markus This is great news. Brian has done a fantastic job with this group over the years Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Pers

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Seeking Input on the Future of the Anti-Abuse Working Group

2024-05-13 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Serge It’s not a matter of “comfort zones” – which Nick explained quite articulately RIPE currently does not have the power to do a lot of things. The WG cannot magically change that. If you look at the current “debate” raging on the main members’ list, people are arguing over a potential 50 e

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Seeking Input on the Future of the Anti-Abuse Working Group

2024-05-13 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Suresh It might be helpful to discuss this with them. I’m sure there are *some* things that they could do without putting it to the members, but there’s a lot of things that would need member agreement in order to change. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Col

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] IP Range Flagged as VPN/Proxy by Amazon Prime Video/Disney+/Netflix

2024-06-19 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Been there. It’s an absolute pain. If you contact me offlist I can try and assist you Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal

[anti-abuse-wg] Re: Self registration, was Draft minutes from RIPE 88 for your consideration

2024-07-26 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Alessandro I’ve no idea who your upstream LIR is, but I know that quite a few LIRs *will* assign IP blocks to clients in the RIPE database. Doing it for every single individual IP would be an admin burden, but I know we do it for a lot of our clients who have blocks of IPs. So please don’t make

[anti-abuse-wg] Re: Self registration

2024-07-26 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
ning attachments from unrecognised sources. On Fri 26/Jul/2024 12:44:56 +0200 Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg wrote: > Alessandro > > I’ve no idea who your upstream LIR is, but I know that quite a few LIRs > **will** assign IP blocks to clients in the RIPE database. Do

[anti-abuse-wg] Re: WG Co-Chair Selection Process Update

2024-10-18 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Brian I’ve no issue with supporting them and thanks to them and you for devoting your time to this WG. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)5