November 2024 archive

and now for something completely different

my CMX1100

I am a member of an odd (very odd at times) motorcycle forum. That forum runs a “motorcycle picture of the week” competition. This week, the challenge, set by “Viator” was to show a picture of your bike “with something you have made”. Now since I do not make much in the way of actual …

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spoof source identified

This email just in from the tor project team. From: gus To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] Update: Tor relays source IPs spoofed to mass-scan port 22 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 15:49:37 -0300 Hello everyone, I’m writing to share that the origin of the spoofed packets has been identified and successfully shut down today, thanks to …

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watchdogcyberdefense.com are complete bozos

And may even be malicious. I have been receiving “malicious activity” reports from my hosting ISP about my Tor node at “tor1.rlogin.net” since about the end of October. So far I have received five such reports. Each report takes the following form: We have received an abuse report from abuse@watchdogcyberdefense.com for your IP address 95.216.198.252. …

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