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| From | "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack |
| Date | 2019-07-29 11:58 +0100 |
| Organization | 255 software |
| Message-ID | <2bEdhOmYFtPdFwB9@255soft.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <95o01g-506.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> <t+1L4eOeaiPdFwRv@255soft.uk> <qhlf3n$bu0$2@dont-email.me> <uCPLXMj1NlPdFwDk@255soft.uk> <qhmi19$1p8$1@dont-email.me> |
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In message <qhmi19$1p8$1@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes: >On 29/07/2019 03:01, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: >> In message <qhlf3n$bu0$2@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher >><tnp@invalid.invalid> writes: >>> On 28/07/2019 23:50, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: >>>> In message <95o01g-506.ln1@Telcontar.valinor>, Carlos E.R. >>>><robin_listas@es.invalid> writes: >>>>> On 28/07/2019 15.50, Anonymous wrote: >>>> [] >>>> (Someone else wrote - attribution snipped before this point:) >>>>>>> This is why I installed ipset on my server and block all of China, >>>>>>> Russia, North Korea and Slavic countries. This is something that >>>>>>> most all servers should. It is not like you are going to miss out >>>>>>> on any business from these corrupt, commie countries. >>>>>> >>>>>> You need to include all of Africa too. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> And all of USA. That's the worst one, but you will not see it in >>>>>the logs. >>>>> >>>> Difficult, as very few use the .us TLD. I guess since (more or >>>>less) the internet was invented/developed in USA, the .com, etc. >>>>TLDs predominate, but I do continue to be surprised that people >>>>aren't _proud_ to use a .us address. >>> >>> Am I intuiting that you think ipset works on domain names rather >>>than IP addresses? >>> >> Sorry, I hadn't noticed you said you were using ipset (of which I >>know nothing). I was thinking of host file and similar filtering. > >Not me. Someone lese. > [I never said it was you - if you count ">"s, you'll see I was replying to the person posting as "Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid>".] >>> >> How would you know which IP addresses are any given country anyway? > >whois lookup on various ip ranges will reveal who issued them and to whom > > >e.g. >$whois 5.5.5.5 [details snipped] >This shows a block of IP addresses issued by RIPE to a German ISP > Yes, but that doesn't answer my question "How would you know which IP addresses are any given country" - being able to look up which country a given IP is in (even assuming the whois return includes that datum) doesn't tell you which IP addresses are in a given country; it tells you (or might) which country a given IP address is in, which isn't the same thing! > >Or https://lite.ip2location.com/russian-federation-ip-address-ranges > > >will for example list exhastively ALL ip ranges belonging to Russisn >organisations and ISPs > > Now that's a closer answer. I see https://lite.ip2location.com/ has (bottom right of page) a list of countries, though I didn't investigate it. Just looking at the russian-federation list linked to above, it's a very long and bitty list; your "ipset" must work hard blocking all those, plus the other countries you mention. (By "your" I mean whichever poster said they were doing that.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A. Top-posters. Q. What's the most irritating thing on Usenet?
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Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2019-07-06 10:36 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2019-07-27 22:13 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack POSHLYAK <POSHLYAK@localmail.com> - 2019-07-28 02:22 +0000
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Keith Nuttle <Keith_Nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-07-27 22:50 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Snowden" <Edmail@fromrussiawithlove.net> - 2019-07-28 08:49 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-28 08:50 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-28 16:30 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-28 23:50 +0100
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-29 01:37 +0100
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-29 03:01 +0100
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-29 11:33 +0100
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-29 11:58 +0100
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2019-07-29 08:12 -0300
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 13:27 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "anonymous" <anonymous@rip.ax.lt> - 2019-07-29 07:04 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2019-07-29 13:34 +0000
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:45 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 09:31 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 20:54 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2019-07-30 10:42 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2019-07-30 10:40 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-07-29 08:21 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:47 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:03 +0100
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 12:58 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 06:59 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-07-28 23:52 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-29 12:11 +0100
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-29 15:34 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-30 00:00 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-30 02:30 +0100
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-30 11:57 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-30 16:18 +0000
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-07-30 13:12 +0000
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-30 15:02 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-31 12:52 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-31 14:59 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-30 00:35 +0000
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-30 02:26 +0100
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-30 15:08 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 06:57 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-07-29 07:58 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 07:08 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-07-29 08:13 -0400
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:48 +0200
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-07-29 08:32 -0700
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <nobody@mixmin.net> - 2019-07-29 11:12 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-07-29 09:50 -0700
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Chuck Rhode <CRhode@LacusVeris.com> - 2019-07-28 11:18 -0500
Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:36 +0000
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