20080530
Follow up: Norwegian Hospital Vandal Shutdown
Thanks to the IT team at the hospital in Oslo, Norway for their quick response to the wave of vandalism that has plagued this website and many other websites on the Internet.Their response has inspired me to send out letters to other sites who may be abusing the Internet to spread unsolicited and in some cases illegal content.
While CAPTCHAs may not guarantee a decreased risk of vandalism, it will certainly be considered as a countermeasure. Because of the recent cracks of the CAPTCHA, the Honeypot-style plan is effective.
Hopefully, I will not be sending any more messages to hospitals in Norway.
Once again, Thanks!
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/30/2008 09:37:00 PM (0) comments top
20080529
A new plan to deal with vandals
My new plan creates a page of every banned IP address. Rather than a long list of IPs that can be difficult to sort, and a pain to list if over 300 vandal IPs are attacking your site at once. (ouch!)I'm also sending letters out to companies whose employees or students are quietly vandalizing websites.
I don't know why a hospital in Norway is posting links to pornographic websites, but I'm sure that their Information Technology department will give me a reason.
The new plan uses resources from the various NICs (Network Information Centres). While this is alot of work, it will be something to keep me busy until I can find work. (Career Builder sucks!)
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/29/2008 08:04:00 PM (0) comments top
20080528
Neko Wiki assaulted, reinforced
Running a website is not all roses and wildflowers. Sometimes it is hardwork.As previous posts would indicate, one of the most challenging parts of running your own website is security. While I tend not to constantly think about security, sometimes you have to let your guard down in order to build security up.
Such was the case this month at this website, specifically the Neko wiki.
Apparently, sometime between May 11th and May 27th (yesterday), over 300 vandal IP addresses assaulted the wiki. When I started taking countermeasures, the attacks suddenly stopped. It was like turning the light on in a room full of cockroaches.
The history of one of the pages that was created, which will now be used as a "honeypot" for gathering more rouge vandals shows that vandalism was not just added to the wiki, but it was also removed and edited by the same IP address. This may indicate that not all the vandals are web robots, but live people.
An investigation will be taking place that will thoughly identfy the more active offenders.
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/28/2008 09:30:00 AM (0) comments top
20080228
RIPE: Pakistan Hijacked YouTube - Click!
The RIPE Network Coordination Centre describes this weeks shutdown of access to YouTube in Pakistan Telecom as "hijacking". RIPE recorded that the ban by Pakistan were felt worldwide on the Internet, affecting traffic globally.I believe that our own government does the same thing, but not in such a grandiose scale as what Pakistan did, which is irontic since not too many people in Pakistan do have the Internet, and those who do have it don't like the majority of it.
The thing that governments do not get is that the Internet gets its message through no matter what obstructs it. Communication in general can't be obstructed 100%. There is always that fraction of a point that always gets throught, slips through the cracks. Hence why the government montoring EVERY phone call and tracking EVERY email message is FUTILE. (Tell that to President Bush or President Mushariff or President Putin.)
Because they are too busy tracking Dick and Jane, Osama still runs free. So don't buy into this crap where the government says they are montioring calls in our own country because their are "sleeper cells in America".
There is already a terrorist organization in the United States. It's called the Westboro Baptist Church. If that doesn't say "Tim McVeigh" with the protest at military funerals and the website domains that have been squatted to propogate their hate then the people who pull the woll over our eyes here are not paying attention.
Pakistant can't expect to shut out the Internet due to their religious beliefs because the world does not see things as they do. America can't treat people like prisoners while the real culperates (the corporate politicans (i.e. Bush)) keep stealing money from us because they claim theo don't have the
Even hijacked passengers will fight back and subdue the people who are hijacking them.
Labels: anti1984, freedom, security, tubes
posted by Bushido Hacks 2/28/2008 11:15:00 PM (0) comments top
20080208
Taser rendered useless, Bro. - Click!
While currently only being sold for military and police use, expect to see protestors at the next G8 summit with an underground supply of ThorShield.ThorShield should be on the consumer market. Imagine if you have a mentally disabled relative who is an emotional train wreck whe Officer Fuzz tases him.
Then there is the school officers who are now packing tasers at school and prodding the unarmed student. Some 15 year old who has no intention of being the next Eric Harris and loves school but is being stunned because they principal does not like what he says or the teacher does not agree with his point of view in history class.
Children are not sheep that should be prodded or forced to comply with energy weapons. The taser's abuse is over!
Labels: anti1984, donttasemebro, freedom, resistance, security, tech
posted by Bushido Hacks 2/08/2008 10:20:00 PM (0) comments top
