Re: Verisign's SiteFinder

[Omar Herrera <omar_herrera () BANXICO ORG MX>]

Verisign seems to be doing something "weird" with this service. There
are many discussions around this everywhere, here is a sample of what
seems to be going on:

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20030926S0003

I have not reviewed all the information with detail but it seems that
Verisign is being accused of doing some sort of traffic hijacking.

Omar Herrera, CISSP

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 
Mexico City Campus 
Information security topic and laboratory


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> De: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] En nombre de Matthew Dalton
> Enviado el: Viernes, 26 de Septiembre de 2003 01:01 PM
> Para: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Asunto: [SECURITY] Verisign's SiteFinder
>
> Has anyone else out there notices an increase in bad traffic filling
up
> their queues since the SiteFinder "service" went into affect?  If so,
what
> are other people doing about it from a technological standpoint and/or
> awareness standpoint?  If you want to reply to me off-list, I will be
> happy to summarize to both lists the results.  Thanks.
>
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