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[Daniel Quintiliani <danq AT runbox.com>]

"Anti-spam outfit Spamhaus has called on the UK government to fine those
who are running Internet infrastructure that could be exploited by
criminals. Those who leave open Domain Name Server resolvers vulnerable
to attack should be fined, if they have previously received a warning,
said chief information officer of Spamhaus, Richard Cox. When Spamhaus
was hit by a massive distributed DDoS possibly the biggest ever recorded
at more than 300Gbits/sec — open DNS resolvers were used to amplify the
hit, which was aimed at one of the organization's upstream partners.
'Once they know it can be used for attacks and fraud, that should be an
offense,' Cox said. 'You should be subject to something like a parking
ticket... where the fine is greater than the cost of fixing it."

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/11/27/1447241/spamhaus-calls-for-fining-operators-of-insecure-servers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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-Dan Q

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