[AusNOG] DDOS mitigation

[Dobbins, Roland]

On May 12, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Zone Networks - Joel wrote:

> Its all those damn Joomla/Wordpress websites that have been compromised and I don't see it stopping either, since they are millions of these websites that wont get patched/upgraded until its exploited.

My hope is to utilize the aforementioned insurance scheme to induce IDC operators to perform ongoing proactive vulnerability scanning of hosted/co-located/virtual servers located on their access networks, and to shut down end-customers who are not fully patched until they remediate their boxen.

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