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Could be of some use to stop Swen
by Juha Saarinen 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

vbl.messagelabs.com Seems to catch quite a few here, but not of course the ones sent from ISP smarthosts. -- Juha Saarinen

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RE: [nznog] Verisign grabs *.net and *.com
by Robert Purdy (DSL AK) 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Quick question - If you don't implement a patch are you leaving yourself exposed to a DOS attack? A simple perl script enumerating random domains and digging at an ISP server could probably fill a DNS cache over a period of time. (It would eventually fall over I guess...) Rob -----Original Message----- From: Nic Bellamy [mailto:nic(a)bellamy.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2003 10:25 a.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 09:29, Joe Abley wrote: > > On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 23:58 Canada/Eastern, Juha Saarinen wrote: > > > Brent McDowell wrote: > >> For those of you who use djbdns, a patch has been released that > >> rejects A records that resolve to 64.94.110.11. It'll return > >> NXDOMAIN. > >> http://tinydns.org/djbdns-1.05-ignoreip.patch > > > > Anything for BIND 9? > > I am told an official patch is being tested right now. In the interim, there's a patch floating around for bind9 - haven't found an official site for it, so I've chucked it up at: http://www.bellamy.co.nz/stuff/bind9-antiverisign.patch I can confirm it Works For Me(tm) (even if it's done in a rather ugly manner). Cheers, Nic. -- Nic Bellamy <nic(a)bellamy.co.nz> Bellamy Consulting (NZ) Limited. +64-6-377-4957 Mobile: +64-21-251-8954 Internet Software & Security Consulting -- http://www.bellamy.co.nz/ -- _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

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Re: [nznog] Iworm.Swen
by Ewen McNeill 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

In message <001501c380a4$fe004bd0$fd00a8c0(a)morpheus>, "Matthew G Brown" writes: >Is anyone seeing large influx of Iworm.Swen & >Exploit.IFrame.FileDownloadMessage over the last few days. Im getting >over 200 a day, All for some reason addressed to me , very few to any >other users. The discussion in ASR suggests that it's mainly grabbing addresses to use from Usenet archives/news servers. So people who have posted frequently are getting considerably more than those who haven't. I'm blocking perhaps 100/day at present (due to their included Microsoft Executables). Some people in ASR were getting many dozens per _hour_ (I think one person was seeing hundreds per hour), so I'm grateful that this one doesn't seem to have hit me as hard as SoBig.F was (I was seeing thousands of copies of SoBig.F per day). Ewen

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Re: [nznog] Iworm.Swen
by Mark Davies 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

From: Ewen McNeill <ewen(a)naos.co.nz> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:14:59 +1200 > Some people in ASR were getting many dozens per _hour_ (I think one > person was seeing hundreds per hour), so I'm grateful that this one > doesn't seem to have hit me as hard as SoBig.F was (I was seeing > thousands of copies of SoBig.F per day). We threw away 4500 over the weekend, mostly to two particular addresses, but a sprinkling to others. Don't know why those two addresses were so hard done by. mark

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Iworm.Swen
by Matthew G Brown 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

Is anyone seeing large influx of Iworm.Swen & Exploit.IFrame.FileDownloadMessage over the last few days. Im getting over 200 a day, All for some reason addressed to me , very few to any other users. I seem to be the only one I know having this problem, I feel very special. Best regards Matthew G Brown B & R Holdings LIMITED Nelson, New Zealand DDI: + 64 3 544 9116 MOB: 027 4807731 http://www.brh.co.nz http://www.backupserver.co.nz

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where, o where, has my little switch gone.
by Simon Blake 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

If anybody finds a Cisco 2912 switch that's, cough, fallen off the back of a truck, please sing out - we had one five fingered last night. Ripped the rack of the wall, dropped the power, the whole nine yards. Still, our none-to-bright crims took the cheap switch and left the rack of far more valuable media convertors sitting above it, so I guess we can be thankful for small mercies! Thankfully, not a very common occurence. Cheers Si

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VeriSign Sued
by Hugh Lilly 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 VeriSign Sued Over Controversial Web Service Thu September 18, 2003 09:13 PM ET By Elinor Mills Abreu SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Internet search company on Thursday filed a $100 million antitrust lawsuit against VeriSign Inc., accusing the Web address provider of hijacking misspelled and unassigned Web addresses with a service it launched this week. http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID… - -- (C) 2003 Hugh Lilly mail: h.lilly(a)gmx.net blog: http://hugh.orcon.net.nz Registered Linux User # 295486, register @ http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/auF89hi2EvY06qgRAmGmAKCTLqkXIJag46oQLDq1od0PFIHXqQCglYeI svtZjEX42+BJbhPx1/yoiSc= =P+4f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Prefix list update for Net4U Limited (AS23746)
by Michael Jager 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Hi all, For those of you peering with Net4U, please update your filters to allow 210.55.110.0/24. A complete prefix list is attached for your reference. -michael Network Operations Net4u Limited

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Fwd: [ga] ICANN Advisory to Verisign: Voluntarily suspend Sitefinder
by david＠farrar.com 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Even ICANN has arisen to life and has asked Verisign to suspend their sitefinder service. Will be useful to read what their Security and Stability Advisory Committee says on the wildcard issue. DPF ----- Message Forwarded on 20/09/03 ----- From: George Kirikos <gkirikos(a)yahoo.com> To: ga(a)dnso.org Cc: discuss-list(a)opensrs.org Subject: [ga] ICANN Advisory to Verisign: Voluntarily suspend Sitefinder Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:26:56 -0700 (PDT) See the advisory at: http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm I doubt Verisign has the inkling to stop.... Sincerely, George Kirikos http://www.kirikos.com/ P.S. Sign the updated petition at: http://www.whois.sc/verisign-dns/

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ll stuff
by Thomas Salmen 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

looks like i'm going to have to dump my tel stock... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/businessstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3524244& thesection=business&thesubsection=telecommunications&thesecondsubsection=gen eral&thetickercode=TEL my tls shares should do okay though

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