Thứ Sáu, 24 tháng 12, 2010

It's now 00:00 so officially Christmas day. Whether like me, you're working today, or are taking the day off, I hope you all have a great Christmas!

Thứ Bảy, 18 tháng 12, 2010

hpHOSTS - UPDATED December 18th, 2010The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 123,150 listed hostsnames.If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! :)Latest Updated: 18/12/2010 14:00Last Verified: 17/12/2010 16:00Download hpHosts now!http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

Thứ Năm, 16 tháng 12, 2010

They say impersonation is the sincerest form of flattery, wonder if ID theft victims believe that?I happened across a few domains a few days ago, that piqued my interest. They piqued my interest because their Google entry appeared to be a direct copy of parts of the hpHosts site. Looking further showed that actually, they'd not copied the site - they were pointing to it in their A records.

Thứ Hai, 13 tháng 12, 2010

I've been involved in take down and cleanups and whatnot for longer than I care to remember now, and along the way, there's always been one constant - the refusal of some hosts/ASNs/registrars, to do their job (i.e. enforce their AUP/ToS) and take action against abuse (and in most cases, to bother replying at all). eNom for example, who for years blatantly ignored abuse and were found to be
A well-placed Chinese security official has been given a suspended death sentence for taking bribes in exchange for his role in an antivirus software fraud scheme. Yu Bing, former director of the Internet monitoring department of Beijing’s Public Security Bureau, had his agency send out a “virus warning” telling the public to download software from the company Rising Antivirus, to combat a

Thứ Ba, 9 tháng 11, 2010

I've got an update on SurfTown coming shortly (still not cleaned their network!!), but in the meantime, a look at what was reported to me as a spammer site, using the same well known fake news site layout, is sending people to SmileyCentral when you click their links - nice to know IAC are still not trying to put a stop to this .... (though perhaps not surprising).The site, grantsguide.info is
I am happy to report, I've gotten most of the problems sorted out, so most of the resources are now back online. fSpamlist was moved to an external server owned by Josh, to minimize the downtime.References:Issues: Yet more connectivity issueshttp://hphosts.blogspot.com/2010/11/issues-yet-more-connectivity-issues.html