RE: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-22 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: James Smith > > Well I have a question which is off the top of megaupload.com But it's > regarding governments around the world using cloud services. > Do we have others Canadians on this list who can confirm, what branches > of the Canada Government are act

VZ FiOS DNS issues:

2012-01-22 Thread Jamie Bowden
Any Verizon techs around today? I don't know why you can't pass DNS traffic this morning, but it's the second time in as many weeks as it has been an issue, and it's rather annoying (Google is the example, but the exact same failure happens using any destination, on VZ's own or any other publi

RE: VZ FiOS DNS issues:

2012-01-22 Thread Brandon Kim
I have FIOS and I have no issues. However I do know awhile back they had issues and I was affected by the outage Maybe it hasn't made its way to me yet > From: ja...@photon.com > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: VZ FiOS DNS issues: > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:10:17 + > > > Any Ve

Re: VZ FiOS DNS issues:

2012-01-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: > > I have FIOS and I have no issues. However I do know awhile back they had > issues and I was affected by > the outage > > Maybe it hasn't made its way to me yet > there have been instances over the time i've been a fios customer tha

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-22 Thread Roland Perry
In article <596b74b410ee6b4ca8a30c3af1a155ea09c8c...@rwc-mbx1.corp.seven.com>, George Bonser writes The problem is going to be the thousands of people who have now lost their legitimate files, research data, personal recordings, etc. that they were using Megaupload to share. But that's an ope

Re: VZ FiOS DNS issues:

2012-01-22 Thread James Laszko
On Jan 22, 2012, at 8:11 AM, "Jamie Bowden" wrote: > > Any Verizon techs around today? I don't know why you can't pass DNS traffic > this morning, but it's the second time in as many weeks as it has been an > issue, and it's rather annoying (Google is the example, but the exact same > failu

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-22 Thread Nick B
I just made the brain melting mistake of trying to read the DMCA. The text which jumps out at me is: `(2) EXCEPTION- Paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to material residing at the direction of a subscriber of the service provider on a system or network controlled or operate

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-22 Thread Joseph Snyder
I would disagree, to me I would guess that the court would interpret the disabling of access or removal to refer to the material and not the url. The url is just a reference to the material in question. If you build a bashing system that does not let you comply with the law, that becomes your pr

Re: VZ FiOS DNS issues:

2012-01-22 Thread Joseph Snyder
Try a full rebind on your cpe or power cycle, whichever is easier. This seems to have worked for a few on the forums. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. James Laszko wrote: On Jan 22, 2012, at 8:11 AM, "Jamie Bowden" wrote: > > Any Verizon techs around t

AkamaiHD/Facebook problem?

2012-01-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
I'm seeing, when trying to view images I posted to a facebook album, grey boxes instead of thumbnails. If I click all the way through and View Image, I get either 502 Bad Gateway from nginx, or the odd message "All blocks down", which I can't successfully google. This seems intermittent, or slow

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
Nick B wrote: > I'm about 90% sure that in a fair court, it would be concluded that > disabling the reported URL qualifies as disabling access to the material. > The court might then issue an injunction to, in the future, disable *all* > *possible* access to the material, but that's not the curr

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Nick B" > I'm about 90% sure that in a fair court, it would be concluded that > disabling the reported URL qualifies as disabling access to the > material. > The court might then issue an injunction to, in the future, disable > *all* *possible* access to the

LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread A. Pishdadi
Hello, We recently tracked down a botnet that attacked our network. We found the C&C server, it has approximately 40-50 servers, consisting of mostly *nix machines with high speed connections, for example AWS servers or dedicated, attack capacity is 4-5Gb/s or more. Is there any contacts with law

Re: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread bmanning
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:16:39PM -0600, A. Pishdadi wrote: > Hello, > > We recently tracked down a botnet that attacked our network. We found the > C&C server, it has approximately 40-50 servers, consisting of mostly *nix > machines with high speed connections, for example AWS servers or dedicat

Re: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
FBI sure - but if you have AWS servers in the mix, contact Amazon security first. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:46 AM, A. Pishdadi wrote: > > We recently tracked down a botnet that attacked our network. We found the > C&C server, it has approximately 40-50 servers, consisting of mostly *nix > machine

Re: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread TR Shaw
On Jan 22, 2012, at 8:19 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:16:39PM -0600, A. Pishdadi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We recently tracked down a botnet that attacked our network. We found the >> C&C server, it has approximately 40-50 servers, consisting of mostly *nix

Re: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread A. Pishdadi
The IP's are masked, you only see part of the IP/hostname, if there is someone from amazon here, feel free to contact me. The C&C is hosted at theplanet/softlayer On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > FBI sure - but if you have AWS servers in the mix, contact Amazon >

Re: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread Darius Jahandarie
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 20:26, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > FBI I bet the FBI is going to be _particularly_ focused on dealing with botnets in the coming months. :o) But yes, the FBI is the place to go after contacting whatever abuse departments you can. (It's good to have a little courtesy

Re: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread A. Pishdadi
We've been contacted by the Secret Service before regarding customer servers that have been doing shady stuff. apparently they do alot of the cybercrime work for the federal government. from what I've seen we've been contacted more by them then the FBI. I did email a contact from the SS from a issu

RE: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread James Laszko
Perhaps: http://www.cybercrime.gov/reporting.htm James Laszko Mythos Technology Inc -Original Message- From: A. Pishdadi [mailto:apishd...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 5:36 PM To: Darius Jahandarie Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: LAw Enforcement Contact We've been contacted by the

RE: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Fine
I attended a Cisco seminar on infrastructure security where the speaker was a former FBI agent. For reporting computer-related crimes, he recommended contacting your local Infragard office. http://www.infragard.net/ Of course I noticed that Infragard was hacked by LulzSec last June, so

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-22 Thread Jacob Taylor
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 11:14 +, Alec Muffett wrote: > On 20 Jan 2012, at 11:00, Tei wrote: > > > Fileshares can organize thenselves in sites based on a forum software > > that is private by default (open with registration), then share some > > "information" file that include the url to the fil

Re: Why not to use RPKI (Was Re: Argus: a hijacking alarm system)

2012-01-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Yang Xiang wrote: > 2012/1/20 Arturo Servin >> > while Argus can discover potential hijackings caused by anomalous AS >> path. >> >>         Can you explain how? >> > > Only a imprecisely detection. > > Section III.C in our paper > http://argus.csnet1.cs.tsinghua

Re: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-22 Thread Chris
The appropriately named SS mainly deals with counterfeit currency, widespread ID theft (See also: Ryan1918) and threats to the President. There is nothing really you can do and this is why: 1. If you contact the domain name provider, a backup domain is likely being used, so if that is shutdown you