Taking Down DNSChanger: A First Person Account

penciling_in writes "Paul Vixie shares his personal account of the DNSChanger takedown operation, working with the FBI and a worldwide team. He also explains the delay issues in identifying and notifying victims, which resulted in the FBI asking the judge for an extension. They were given four more months. 'On July 9 2012 the replacement DNS servers operated by ISC will be shut down and any victims who still depend on these servers will face new risks,' he warns. A half-dozen national Internet security teams around the world have created special websites that will display a warning message to potential victims of the DNS Changer infection. The full list of these 'DNS Checking' websites is published by the DNS Changer Working Group."

Re:dcwg.org

[Zocalo]

It is dot org. Who cares about dot orgs? Squatters are more interested in dot com.

Damn straight. That's some nice digs Kim has out there in New Zealand... Be a shame if he were sent down for a few years and a bunch of squatters moved in.