April 7th Meeting Notes
Spokane 2600 Meeting Notes
Our sites still coming back online due to the consequences of the Spammergate fiasco at Tierpoint in Liberty Lake, Washington
http://dev2dev.com/all_offline/
Spammergate
The huge outage last month. End of E-insites.
Wireless triangulation system for Search & Rescue
Civilian aviation
Rural WISP 8 mile by 12 mile area. (Wireless Internet Service provider).
UUnet, WorldCom.
Albion Telephone Company (ATC)
Zombie Orpheus Entertainment Interactive Community Platform starting to launch now.
Cyber-world.com / E-Insites out of business page.
Ongoing Spammergate repercussions, lawsuits filed March 21st and pending in Spokane courts as of April 6th.
Kernel stuffing & DDoS for spamming
Linux Kernel flaw, with permissions escalation and DDoS fixed after 7+ years!
OAuth/2 Challenges
NodeBB / NodeJS, MediaWiki, Wordpress, PHP, and security concerns.
Setup of Ubunutu 16 LTS
OpenSuse LEAP 42.1 and many problems with it. Hawke rolled back to 13.2.
Asus ROG, Hawke's happiness with it.
Another member's happiness with his Alienware.
Setup issues with MediaWiki on Ubuntu 16 LTS
Install and use of Linux Mint
Install and use of Cent OS 7
And many other topics!
See you all online, and next month!
Links/References
http://dev2dev.com/all_offline/
http://www.govinfosecurity.com/backup-error-exposes-137-billion-record-spamming-database-a-9755
https://mackeeper.com/blog/post/339-spammergate-the-fall-of-an-empire
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/river-city-media-response-defamatory-200900336.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security)
https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#RiverCityMedia
https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2017/04/07/breach-report-march-2017/
https://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/spammer/SPM1011/matt-ferris-river-city-media-acetech-usa
http://digitalarteries.com/business-2/ethics/deceptive-marketing/river_city_media/
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/washington/waedce/2:2017cv00105/76115