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Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay$460G in ransomware attack



 
 
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  #1  
Old July 6th 19, 09:36 AM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay$460G in ransomware attack

A Florida city reportedly has fired one of its top tech
employees after officials were forced to pay $460,000 in ransom
to the hackers behind a cyber attack that disabled its servers,
phones and email accounts.

Brian Hawkins, Lake City's director of information technology,
was let go from his job Monday, about three weeks after the
hackers' malware compromised the city's computer network,
according to WCJB.

“Our city manager did make a decision to terminate one employee
and he is revamping our whole IT department to comply with what
we need to be able to overcome what happened... so it doesn't
happen again,” Mayor Stephen Witt told the station.

Staff initially tried to restore the networks themselves
following the ransomware attack, but failed. Lake City council
members, at an emergency meeting last week, ultimately agreed to
pay 42 Bitcoins (around $460,000) to the hacker in exchange for
a decryption key that would get its networks back online. The
city's IT team and a third party vendor, WCJB reports, told them
it was their only resort.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/florida...es-it-director
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  #2  
Old July 28th 19, 03:13 AM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced topay $460G in ransomware attack

On 7/6/19 4:36 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
A Florida city reportedly has fired one of its top tech
employees after officials were forced to pay $460,000 in ransom
to the hackers behind a cyber attack that disabled its servers,
phones and email accounts.


A friend of mine worked for a social services agency of our local
government many years ago. Some genius had the database of all the
necessary data in a single IBM IMS/DB IMS/DC system to handle all the
data of the entire state. At one point, they installed an update which
failed, and all the data were lost. My friend complained that all the
employees had to work nights and weekends to re-enter the previous
month's data transactions. During the daytime, they tried to serve their
customers (welfare, mostly).

I suggested that they just restore everything from the most recent
backup and then apply the updates from the journal tapes. (This was back
in the days of magnetic tape). I explained all this to my friend who
inquired as to why they were not doing this. It turns out that the
genius had turned off the backups because they took too much time and
they needed someone to change the tapes. So he saved a little money that
way.

But the welfare clients could not get their checks that month, many got
evicted from their welfare hotels, and had problems paying for food and
medications. I very much doubt the genius got fired.

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  #3  
Old July 28th 19, 03:22 AM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced topay $460G in ransomware attack

On 2019-07-28, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
On 7/6/19 4:36 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
A Florida city reportedly has fired one of its top tech
employees after officials were forced to pay $460,000 in ransom
to the hackers behind a cyber attack that disabled its servers,
phones and email accounts.


A friend of mine worked for a social services agency of our local
government many years ago. Some genius had the database of all the
necessary data in a single IBM IMS/DB IMS/DC system to handle all the
data of the entire state. At one point, they installed an update which
failed, and all the data were lost. My friend complained that all the
employees had to work nights and weekends to re-enter the previous
month's data transactions. During the daytime, they tried to serve their
customers (welfare, mostly).

I suggested that they just restore everything from the most recent
backup and then apply the updates from the journal tapes. (This was back
in the days of magnetic tape). I explained all this to my friend who
inquired as to why they were not doing this. It turns out that the
genius had turned off the backups because they took too much time and
they needed someone to change the tapes. So he saved a little money that
way.

But the welfare clients could not get their checks that month, many got
evicted from their welfare hotels, and had problems paying for food and
medications. I very much doubt the genius got fired.


I have a friend who works in security for a major US bank and the
things he tells me are frightening. First off, the Russians are
down on the list of potential hackers.

Number 1 is China by far.
Followed by North Korea, Middle Eastern countries and some of
the Slavic countries.
They get hammered 100's of thousands +++ of times per day by these countries
probing their infrastructure.

It's like the wild wild west out there.




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  #4  
Old July 28th 19, 03:50 AM posted to comp.os.linux.misc,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced topay $460G in ransomware attack

On 7/27/2019 10:22 PM, POSHLYAK wrote:
On 2019-07-28, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
On 7/6/19 4:36 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
A Florida city reportedly has fired one of its top tech
employees after officials were forced to pay $460,000 in ransom
to the hackers behind a cyber attack that disabled its servers,
phones and email accounts.


A friend of mine worked for a social services agency of our local
government many years ago. Some genius had the database of all the
necessary data in a single IBM IMS/DB IMS/DC system to handle all the
data of the entire state. At one point, they installed an update which
failed, and all the data were lost. My friend complained that all the
employees had to work nights and weekends to re-enter the previous
month's data transactions. During the daytime, they tried to serve their
customers (welfare, mostly).

I suggested that they just restore everything from the most recent
backup and then apply the updates from the journal tapes. (This was back
in the days of magnetic tape). I explained all this to my friend who
inquired as to why they were not doing this. It turns out that the
genius had turned off the backups because they took too much time and
they needed someone to change the tapes. So he saved a little money that
way.

But the welfare clients could not get their checks that month, many got
evicted from their welfare hotels, and had problems paying for food and
medications. I very much doubt the genius got fired.


I have a friend who works in security for a major US bank and the
things he tells me are frightening. First off, the Russians are
down on the list of potential hackers.

Number 1 is China by far.
Followed by North Korea, Middle Eastern countries and some of
the Slavic countries.
They get hammered 100's of thousands +++ of times per day by these countries
probing their infrastructure.

It's like the wild wild west out there.




I worked for a large pharmaceutical company. Thier IT department locked
down all of the company computers so only company approved software
would run, all data was on company servers.

EXCEPT, They forgot the DOS batch commands and batch files. The
"Obsolete" DOS commands could do about any thing you wanted on their
secure system.

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They did not know your standards, so could not try to meet them.
  #5  
Old July 28th 19, 02:49 PM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced topay $460G in ransomware attack


I have a friend who works in security for a major US bank and the
things he tells me are frightening. First off, the Russians are
down on the list of potential hackers.

Number 1 is China by far.
Followed by North Korea, Middle Eastern countries and some of
the Slavic countries.
They get hammered 100's of thousands +++ of times per day by these

countries
probing their infrastructure.

It's like the wild wild west out there.


This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries. This is something that
most all servers should. It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.

  #6  
Old July 28th 19, 02:50 PM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Anonymous
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced topay $460G in ransomware attack



I have a friend who works in security for a major US bank and the
things he tells me are frightening. First off, the Russians are
down on the list of potential hackers.

Number 1 is China by far.
Followed by North Korea, Middle Eastern countries and some of
the Slavic countries.
They get hammered 100's of thousands +++ of times per day by

these countries
probing their infrastructure.

It's like the wild wild west out there.


This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries. This is something that
most all servers should. It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.


You need to include all of Africa too.

  #7  
Old July 28th 19, 03:30 PM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced topay $460G in ransomware attack

On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:


I have a friend who works in security for a major US bank and the
things he tells me are frightening. First off, the Russians are
down on the list of potential hackers.

Number 1 is China by far.
Followed by North Korea, Middle Eastern countries and some of
the Slavic countries.
They get hammered 100's of thousands +++ of times per day by

these countries
probing their infrastructure.

It's like the wild wild west out there.


This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries. This is something that
most all servers should. It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.


You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in the logs.

--
Cheers, Carlos.
  #8  
Old July 28th 19, 11:50 PM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack

In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:

[]
(Someone else wrote - attribution snipped before this point
This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries. This is something that
most all servers should. It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.


You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in the logs.

Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or less) the
internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc. TLDs predominate,
but I do continue to be surprised that people aren't _proud_ to use a
..us address.
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  #9  
Old July 29th 19, 01:37 AM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced topay $460G in ransomware attack

On 28/07/2019 23:50, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:

[]
(Someone else wrote - attribution snipped before this point
This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries.Â* This is something that
most all servers should.Â* It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.

Â* You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in the
logs.

Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or less) the
internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc. TLDs predominate,
but I do continue to be surprised that people aren't _proud_ to use a
.us address.


Am I intuiting that you think ipset works on domain names rather than IP
addresses?


--
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authorities are wrong.â€

― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
  #10  
Old July 29th 19, 03:01 AM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack

In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes:
On 28/07/2019 23:50, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:

[]
(Someone else wrote - attribution snipped before this point
This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries.* This is something that
most all servers should.* It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.

* You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in the
logs.

Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or less)
the internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc. TLDs
predominate, but I do continue to be surprised that people aren't
_proud_ to use a .us address.


Am I intuiting that you think ipset works on domain names rather than
IP addresses?

Sorry, I hadn't noticed you said you were using ipset (of which I know
nothing). I was thinking of host file and similar filtering.

How would you know which IP addresses are any given country anyway?
--
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That's how he [Dr. Who] seems to me. He's always been someone who gets the
/Guardian/. There are some parts of the universe where it's harder to get hold
of. - Peter Capaldi (current incumbent Doctor), RT 2016/11/26-12/2
  #11  
Old July 29th 19, 04:52 AM posted to comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forcedto pay $460G in ransomware attack

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:

[]
(Someone else wrote - attribution snipped before this point
This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries. This is something that
most all servers should. It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.

You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in the
logs.

Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or less) the
internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc. TLDs predominate,
but I do continue to be surprised that people aren't _proud_ to use a
.us address.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

"...RFC 920 in October 1984, was a set of "general purpose domains":

com, edu, gov, mil, org

The net domain was added with the first implementation of these domains.
The com, net, and org TLDs, despite their originally specified goals,
are now open to use for any purpose.
"

It's got nothing to do with "proudness", and everything
to do with the history and "computed value" of the domains.

Whacky domains do not garner trust, especially country-domains
hijacked because they "sound nice for some other purpose".
That means you'll have trouble selling whacky domains,
if the SEO possibilities are limited, and the search
engines won't "put you at the top". Potential customers
aren't going to click a link that ends in .jokey . Would
you enter a credit card number in https://some.jokey ???
Or would you be suspicious ? I would feel more confident
in a https://some.com , because the site owner wanted
to blend in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain

On 13 June 2012, ICANN announced nearly
2,000 applications for top-level domains

The first seven – bike, clothing, guru, holdings, plumbing,
singles, and ventures

were released in 2014

When is the last time you saw a .plumbing ?

The purpose of this is some kind of dilution.

Surely they could come up with more than 2000 of those.

Look at how many emojis there are, for inspiration...

Paul
  #12  
Old July 29th 19, 11:33 AM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
The Natural Philosopher[_2_]
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced topay $460G in ransomware attack

On 29/07/2019 03:01, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes:
On 28/07/2019 23:50, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:
[]
(Someone else wrote - attribution snipped before this point
This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries.Â* This is something that
most all servers should.Â* It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.

Â* You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in the
logs.

Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or less)
theÂ* internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc. TLDs
predominate,Â* but I do continue to be surprised that people aren't
_proud_ to use aÂ* .us address.


Am I intuiting that you think ipset works on domain names rather than
IP addresses?

Sorry, I hadn't noticed you said you were using ipset (of which I know
nothing). I was thinking of host file and similar filtering.


Not me. Someone lese.


How would you know which IP addresses are any given country anyway?


whois lookup on various ip ranges will reveal who issued them and to whom


e.g.
$whois 5.5.5.5
% This is the RIPE Database query service.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf

% Note: this output has been filtered.
% To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to '5.4.0.0 - 5.7.255.255'

% Abuse contact for '5.4.0.0 - 5.7.255.255' is '

inetnum: 5.4.0.0 - 5.7.255.255
netname: DE-MEDIAWAYS-20120425
country: DE
org: ORG-TDG4-RIPE
admin-c: MWH6-RIPE
tech-c: MWH6-RIPE
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by: MDA-Z
mnt-lower: MDA-Z
mnt-routes: MDA-Z
created: 2012-04-25T06:13:17Z
last-modified: 2018-07-30T09:52:34Z
source: RIPE

organisation: ORG-TDG4-RIPE
org-name: Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co.OHG
org-type: LIR
address: Georg-Brauchle-Ring 50
address: 80992
address: M�nchen
address: GERMANY
phone: +498924420
fax-no: +49892442198224
admin-c: RCM25-RIPE
admin-c: WT546-RIPE
admin-c: DK9212-RIPE
abuse-c: MWH6-RIPE
mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-ref: MDA-Z
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by: MDA-Z
created: 2004-04-17T12:45:50Z
last-modified: 2018-09-25T14:13:22Z
source: RIPE # Filtered

role: mediaWays Hostmaster
address: Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
address: Georg-Brauchle-Ring 50
address: 80992 Muenchen
address: DE
phone: +498924420
fax-no: +49892442198224
abuse-mailbox:
admin-c: DK9212-RIPE
admin-c: RCM25-RIPE
admin-c: WT546-RIPE
tech-c: TG819-RIPE
tech-c: ASZ-RIPE
nic-hdl: MWH6-RIPE
mnt-by: MDA-Z
created: 2001-11-06T10:42:25Z
last-modified: 2018-04-26T12:03:39Z
source: RIPE # Filtered

% Information related to '5.4.0.0/14AS6805'

route: 5.4.0.0/14
descr: Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
remarks: netname: DE-MEDIAWAYS
origin: AS6805
mnt-by: MDA-Z
created: 2018-08-08T09:03:25Z
last-modified: 2018-08-08T09:13:47Z
source: RIPE

% This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service version
1.94.1 (BLAARKOP)

This shows a block of IP addresses issued by RIPE to a German ISP


Or
https://lite.ip2location.com/russian...address-ranges


will for example list exhastively ALL ip ranges belonging to Russisn
organisations and ISPs


--
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  #13  
Old July 29th 19, 11:58 AM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Carlos E.R.[_3_]
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced topay $460G in ransomware attack

On 29/07/2019 04.01, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes:
On 28/07/2019 23:50, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:
[]
(Someone else wrote - attribution snipped before this point
This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries.Â* This is something that
most all servers should.Â* It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.

Â* You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in the
logs.

Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or less)
theÂ* internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc. TLDs
predominate,Â* but I do continue to be surprised that people aren't
_proud_ to use aÂ* .us address.


Am I intuiting that you think ipset works on domain names rather than
IP addresses?

Sorry, I hadn't noticed you said you were using ipset (of which I know
nothing). I was thinking of host file and similar filtering.

How would you know which IP addresses are any given country anyway?


LOL. By using tools dedicated to do just that automatically.

--
Cheers, Carlos.
  #14  
Old July 29th 19, 11:58 AM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_7_]
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Default Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack

In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes:
On 29/07/2019 03:01, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes:
On 28/07/2019 23:50, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:
[]
(Someone else wrote - attribution snipped before this point
This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries.* This is something that
most all servers should.* It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.

* You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in
the logs.

Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or
less) the* internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc.
TLDs predominate,* but I do continue to be surprised that people
aren't _proud_ to use a* .us address.

Am I intuiting that you think ipset works on domain names rather
than IP addresses?

Sorry, I hadn't noticed you said you were using ipset (of which I
know nothing). I was thinking of host file and similar filtering.


Not me. Someone lese.

[I never said it was you - if you count ""s, you'll see I was replying
to the person posting as "Carlos E.R. ".]

How would you know which IP addresses are any given country anyway?


whois lookup on various ip ranges will reveal who issued them and to whom


e.g.
$whois 5.5.5.5

[details snipped]
This shows a block of IP addresses issued by RIPE to a German ISP

Yes, but that doesn't answer my question "How would you know which IP
addresses are any given country" - being able to look up which country a
given IP is in (even assuming the whois return includes that datum)
doesn't tell you which IP addresses are in a given country; it tells you
(or might) which country a given IP address is in, which isn't the same
thing!

Or https://lite.ip2location.com/russian...address-ranges


will for example list exhastively ALL ip ranges belonging to Russisn
organisations and ISPs


Now that's a closer answer. I see https://lite.ip2location.com/ has
(bottom right of page) a list of countries, though I didn't investigate
it.

Just looking at the russian-federation list linked to above, it's a very
long and bitty list; your "ipset" must work hard blocking all those,
plus the other countries you mention. (By "your" I mean whichever poster
said they were doing that.)
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In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote:

[]
(Someone else wrote - attribution snipped before this point
This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China,
Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries. This is something that
most all servers should. It is not like you are going to miss out
on any business from these corrupt, commie countries.

You need to include all of Africa too.


And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in the
logs.

Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or less)
the internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc. TLDs
predominate, but I do continue to be surprised that people aren't
_proud_ to use a .us address.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

"...RFC 920 in October 1984, was a set of "general purpose domains":

com, edu, gov, mil, org

The net domain was added with the first implementation of these domains.
The com, net, and org TLDs, despite their originally specified goals,
are now open to use for any purpose.
"

It's got nothing to do with "proudness", and everything
to do with the history and "computed value" of the domains.

Whacky domains do not garner trust, especially country-domains


I don't consider most country domains to be whacky - certainly not .uk,
..de, .fr, .ch, .it, and most others I can think of.

hijacked because they "sound nice for some other purpose".


Granted, yes, there are some: I gather .tv actually contributes
significantly to the income of (the small island country of) Tuvalu, for
example, because of what it means in the English-speaking world.

However, I actually respect a .us address, on the rare occasions I see
one.

That means you'll have trouble selling whacky domains,
if the SEO possibilities are limited, and the search
engines won't "put you at the top". Potential customers

[]
On 13 June 2012, ICANN announced nearly
2,000 applications for top-level domains

The first seven – bike, clothing, guru, holdings, plumbing,
singles, and ventures

were released in 2014

When is the last time you saw a .plumbing ?


I've never seen one - but that doesn't mean I'd think any less of one if
I did! I don't think I'd have any particular suspicion of the other
examples in your seven - well, other than my intrinsic suspicion of
"holdings", "ventures", and "singles", but that's suspicion of the type
of enterprise, not the domain principle (-:.

The purpose of this is some kind of dilution.


The purpose of what? Dilution of what?

Surely they could come up with more than 2000 of those.

Look at how many emojis there are, for inspiration...


That gives me whatever the opposite of inspiration there is. [Though I
do use them on Twitter as they only count as two (I think) characters.]

Paul

John
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