[FYI] Cloaking Device Made for Spammers

[Joerg-Olaf Schaefers <listen@fx3.de>]

Hallo liebe Archivbots,

 so neu ist es wohl nicht, aber zumindest mal for the rest of us nett
 aufgeschrieben:

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Cloaking Device Made for Spammers
By Brian McWilliams

Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60747,00.html

02:00 AM Oct. 09, 2003 PT

[..] The latest innovations developed by such mercenary hackers on
behalf of the junk e-mail profession are techniques that enable
spammers -- or scam artists for that matter -- to create websites that
are essentially untraceable.

One group in Poland is currently advertising "invisible bulletproof
hosting" in online forums for spammers. For $1,500 per month, the
group says it can protect a site from network sleuthing tools used by
spam opponents, such as traceroute and whois.

[..] According to Tubul, his group controls 450,000 "Trojaned" systems,
most of them home computers running Windows with high-speed
connections. The hacked systems contain special software developed by
the Polish group that routes traffic between Internet users and
customers' websites through thousands of the hijacked computers. The
numerous intermediary systems confound tools such as traceroute,
effectively laundering the true location of the website. To utilize
the service, customers simply configure their sites to use any of
several domain-name system servers controlled by the Polish group,
Tubul said.

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MfG
 Olaf
 
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