[185478] in North American Network Operators' Group
NANOG list attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Blunk)
Mon Oct 26 17:44:39 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Larry Blunk <ljb@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:17:37 -0400
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All,
Just wanted to apologize for the attack over the weekend. The
posts came from a email address that was subscribed to the list, so
it was not subjected to moderation. While a filter was added
to block further posts (which were made in a short time window),
there were existing message queues that were not cleared in a
timely basis.
As Job Snijders (a fellow Communications Committee member) noted
in an earlier post, we will be implementing some additional protection
mechanisms to prevent this style of incident from happening again. We
will be more aggressively moderating posts from addresses who have
not posted recently, in addition to other filtering mechanisms.
Regards,
Larry Blunk
NANOG Communications Committee
Admins@nanog.org
