Fluxed up beyond all recognition
The Guardian Newspaper have published a piece on "Fast-Flux" networking, a system used by many of todays cyber criminals in order to make it more difficult to track them down and shut down their sites. The article is up here and features 2 quotes from yours truely (well one from me, and one from my evil twin Robert McCardle - you can tell us apart as he has a goatee).
The idea of Fast-flux has actually been around for a while, but it was not until the Storm botnet started using it that it began to gain widespread use. The key to really making it work however is the DNS servers, which are normally hosted on "Bulletproof" networks that allow these criminals to run their attacks without fear of an ISP coming along and shutting them down, although the gang behind Storm did actually have to move hosting companies in December due to the amount of attention they had drawn on themselves.Speaking of Fast-Flux, if you want to take a short break from the web with friends - I fully recommend Fluxx , a neat little card game that is almost completely random.
EDIT: Scan of newspaper article attached (Click for full size):
Labels: Malware, Publications, Security, Technical





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