[84086] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: FW: Need some help: IDEAS, Inc.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Sep 3 19:29:25 2005

To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 03 Sep 2005 23:28:55 +0000
In-Reply-To: <042e01c5b0d7$8332d110$ac5030c0@Marc4>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


this is NOT a good solution, since a successful phish attack in this case
would look exactly like the official red cross web site.  plz put up an
informative 404 page and no pointers to any phish-worthy sites.

marc@sachsfamily.net ("Marcus H. Sachs") writes:

> Thanks very much Reed!!!  Great solution by the way.
> 
> Marc
> SANS ISC
> marc@sans.org
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reed Loden [mailto:reed@reedloden.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 3:05 PM
> To: Marcus H. Sachs
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu; handlers@sans.org
> Subject: Re: FW: Need some help: IDEAS, Inc.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:00:03 -0400
> "Marcus H. Sachs" <marc@sachsfamily.net> wrote:
> 
> > The IDEAS, Inc. scum MUST die, but I'm all out of ideas at this 
> > point... the only other possibility that I can think of it to take 
> > them out at the DNS level.  All of the "slave" sites at 206.251.184.10 
> > use DirectNIC for their DNS...  Anyone got sway with them?
> 
> Relayed to DirectNIC staff via IRC. They are dealing with it.
> 
> Instead of just dropping the redirection service and making it go to some
> invalid page, they are going to redirect all the sites to the official Red
> Cross site. ;)
> 
> ~reed
> 
> -- 
> Reed Loden - <reed@reedloden.com>
> 

-- 
Paul Vixie

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post