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Re: Handling of Abuse Complaints

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Atkins)
Mon Aug 29 12:47:07 2016

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
In-Reply-To: <44A68DD2-40FC-470E-9FB2-29D10585886D@mykolab.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:47:04 -0700
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org


> On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:37 AM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> =
wrote:
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> I would suggest that violation of the ISP=E2=80=99s ToS should also be =
consideration, since what may be illegal in one jurisdiction may not be =
illegal in some other jurisdictions.

Unless your abuse / security desk is staffed by lawyers it's probably =
better to avoid words like "criminal" and "unlawfully" altogether and =
stick to "in violation of our ToS".

> Repeated abuse and violations of an ISP=E2=80=99s ToS should also be a =
consideration to terminate a customer relationship, and ISPs are fully =
within their rights to take this type of action.

And don't need to lean on "it's probably illegal" to do so, nor imply =
that if it were legal they wouldn't necessarily enforce their ToS.

(All assuming that being abused as part of a dDoS reflector actually is =
against your ToS. If it's not things get more complex.)

Cheers,
  Steve

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> - ferg
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>> On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Gareth Tupper =
<Gareth.Tupper@warnerpacific.com> wrote:
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>> "unlawfully" is probably redundant, unless these are otherwise =
law-abiding cyber criminals.
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>> /pedant
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of William =
Herrin
>> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 9:28 AM
>> To: Jason Lee <jason.m.lee@gmail.com>
>> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: Handling of Abuse Complaints
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>> Dear Customer,
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>> Cyber criminals are using your network (and ours) to unlawfully =
attack other computers on the Internet.
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>> The specific security problem with your DNS server at 127.0.0.1 was =
first reported to you on Date1 (original message attached). Please be =
advised that we will interrupt network access to that server on Date2.
>> This will likely disrupt your service.
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>> To avoid disruption, please contact me at Email with a mitigation =
plan no later than close of business Date3.
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>> I stand ready to assist any way that I can.
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>> Regards,
>> Your Name
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>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Jason Lee <jason.m.lee@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>> NANOG Community,
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>>> I was curious how various players in this industry handle abuse =
complaints.
>>> I'm drafting a policy for the service provider I'm working for about
>>> handing of complaints registered against customer IP space. In this
>>> example I have a customer who is running an open resolver and have
>>> received a few complaints now regarding it being used as part of a =
DDoS attack.
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>>> My initial response was to inform the customer and ask them to fix =
it.
>>> Now that its still ongoing over a month later, I'd like to take =
action
>>> to remediate the issue myself with ACLs but our customer facing team
>>> is pushing back and without an idea of what the industry best =
practice
>>> is, management isn't sure which way to go.
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>>> I'm hoping to get an idea of how others handle these cases so I can
>>> develop our formal policy on this and have management sign off and =
be
>>> able to take quicker action in the future.
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>>> Thanks,
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>>> Jason
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>> --
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Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
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> Paul Ferguson
> ICEBRG.io
> Seattle, Washington, USA
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