[real-eyes] Re: hundreds of thousands could loose internet access in July
- From: "Duyahn Walker" <themusicman1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:08:44 -0500
I use Google's server's anyway. Not time Warner's. They are not stable. Even
Time Warner here in Kansas city has said that themselves.
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From: "blindbites" <blindbites@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [real-eyes] Re: hundreds of thousands could loose internet access
in July
> Yeah, google's are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
> Steve
>
>
> On 4/20/2012 9:57 PM, &&& (Ruthie) wrote:
>> Whether or not this website thats going to check to see if your computer
>> has been compromised by having the DNS servers changed, an ready way is
>> to
>> change them manually to something like Google's servers.
>> &&& (Ruthie)
>> We are more than the sum of our parts
>> Quit looking for the tagline. It saw you coming and ran away.
>> On Apr 20, 2012 9:40 PM, "Duyahn Walker"<themusicman1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Take a look and tell me what you think of this article. And I hope most
>>> of
>>> us can do this with us using screen readers.
>>> Duyahn
>>>
>>> News and Opinion
>>> i_top
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>>> Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
>>> By Associated Press | Friday, April 20, 2012 |
>>> http://www.bostonherald.com
>>> |
>>> Around the Nation
>>> WASHINGTON - For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the
>>> difference between
>>> staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.
>>> Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers
>>> ran an online
>>> advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world.
>>> In a highly
>>> unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using
>>> government
>>> computers
>>> to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that
>>> system
>>> is to be
>>> shut down.
>>> The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security
>>> partner, http://www.dcwg.org
>>> , that will inform them whether they're infected and explain how to fix
>>> the problem.
>>> After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the Internet.
>>> Most victims don't even know their computers have been infected,
>>> although
>>> the malicious
>>> software probably has slowed their web surfing and disabled their
>>> antivirus software,
>>> making their machines more vulnerable to other problems.
>>> Last November, the FBI and other authorities were preparing to take down
>>> a
>>> hacker
>>> ring that had been running an Internet ad scam on a massive network of
>>> infected computers.
>>> "We started to realize that we might have a little bit of a problem on
>>> our
>>> hands
>>> because ... if we just pulled the plug on their criminal infrastructure
>>> and threw
>>> everybody in jail, the victims of this were going to be without Internet
>>> service,"
>>> said Tom Grasso, an FBI supervisory special agent. "The average user
>>> would
>>> open up
>>> Internet Explorer and get 'page not found' and think the Internet is
>>> broken."
>>> On the night of the arrests, the agency brought in Paul Vixie, chairman
>>> and founder
>>> of Internet Systems Consortium, to install two Internet servers to take
>>> the place
>>> of the truckload of impounded rogue servers that infected computers were
>>> using. Federal
>>> officials planned to keep their servers online until March, giving
>>> everyone opportunity
>>> to clean their computers. But it wasn't enough time. A federal judge in
>>> New York
>>> extended the deadline until July.
>>> Now, said Grasso, "the full court press is on to get people to address
>>> this problem."
>>> And it's up to computer users to check their PCs.
>>> This is what happened:
>>> Hackers infected a network of probably more than 570,000 computers
>>> worldwide. They
>>> took advantage of vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating
>>> system to install
>>> malicious software on the victim computers. This turned off antivirus
>>> updates and
>>> changed the way the computers reconcile website addresses behind the
>>> scenes on the
>>> Internet's domain name system.
>>> The DNS system is a network of servers that translates a web address -
>>> such as www.ap.org
>>> - into the numerical addresses that computers use. Victim computers were
>>> reprogrammed
>>> to use rogue DNS servers owned by the attackers. This allowed the
>>> attackers to redirect
>>> computers to fraudulent versions of any website.
>>> The hackers earned profits from advertisements that appeared on websites
>>> that victims
>>> were tricked into visiting. The scam netted the hackers at least $14
>>> million, according
>>> to the FBI. It also made thousands of computers reliant on the rogue
>>> servers for
>>> their Internet browsing.
>>> When the FBI and others arrested six Estonians last November, the agency
>>> replaced
>>> the rogue servers with Vixie's clean ones. Installing and running the
>>> two
>>> substitute
>>> servers for eight months is costing the federal government about
>>> $87,000.
>>> The number of victims is hard to pinpoint, but the FBI believes that on
>>> the day of
>>> the arrests, at least 568,000 unique Internet addresses were using the
>>> rogue servers.
>>> Five months later, FBI estimates that the number is down to at least
>>> 360,000. The
>>> U.S. has the most, about 85,000, federal authorities said. Other
>>> countries
>>> with more
>>> than 20,000 each include Italy, India, England and Germany. Smaller
>>> numbers are online
>>> in Spain, France, Canada, China and Mexico.
>>> Vixie said most of the victims are probably individual home users,
>>> rather
>>> than corporations
>>> that have technology staffs who routinely check the computers.
>>> FBI officials said they organized an unusual system to avoid any
>>> appearance of government
>>> intrusion into the Internet or private computers. And while this is the
>>> first time
>>> the FBI used it, it won't be the last.
>>> "This is the future of what we will be doing," said Eric Strom, a unit
>>> chief in the
>>> FBI's Cyber Division. "Until there is a change in legal system, both
>>> inside and outside
>>> the United States, to get up to speed with the cyber problem, we will
>>> have
>>> to go
>>> down these paths, trail-blazing if you will, on these types of
>>> investigations."
>>> Now, he said, every time the agency gets near the end of a cyber case,
>>> "we
>>> get to
>>> the point where we say, how are we going to do this, how are we going to
>>> clean the
>>> system" without creating a bigger mess than before.
>>> ___
>>> Online:
>>> To check and clean computers: http://www.dcwg.org
>>> Article URL:
>>> http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view.bg?articleid61125925
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