[120677] in North American Network Operators' Group
RBN and it's spin-offs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Williams)
Wed Dec 30 17:03:15 2009
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:02:25 -0800
From: Bruce Williams <williams.bruce@gmail.com>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Interesting article about RBN, it's spin-offs and the global network
infrastructure used for cybercrime. Has a passing mention of Atrivo's place
in the global picture.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/228674
Reportedly started by someone operating under the name "Flyman," RBN is
known as the mother of cybercrime among online investigators. Fran=E7ois
Paget, senior expert for the McAfee company, says that RBN began as an
Internet provider and offered "impenetrable" hosting for $600 a month. This
meant a guarantee that it would not give out information about its clients,
no matter what business they were in. Aleksandr Gostev, director of
Kaspersky Labs, a global research and threat analysis center, believes that
RBN's servers are located in Panama. "Confidential data about clients can b=
e
obtained only by a court decision," a Newsweek source familiar with the
situation says. "But what court do you apply to if criminal ties are
discovered? A Panamanian court?"
-- Bruce Williams
=93Discovering...discovering...we will never cease discovering...
and the end of all our discovering will be
to return to the place where we began
and to know it for the first time.=94
-T.S. Eliot
