Posts by FatPenguin

Sorry, chaps! We didn't mean to steamroller legit No-IP users – Microsoft

Interesting...

My no-ip.biz domain is now resolving again.

There are no Microsoft DNS in the way any more (according to "dig +trace"). I am no DNS expert (I'm not even "competent" - so there'll be a job at Microsoft for me somewhere then) but earlier today it was hitting the Microsoft DNS then immediately being bounced back "up" the chain and dig gave up because "loop".

So, have Microsoft realised they have dropped a big one here and handed the domains back to noip?

Will be interested to see what's going on now. As with most things in life, I tend to favour the view that it's "cockup" rather than "conspiracy". Microsoft have clearly shown that they couldn't "conspire" to run a DNS service in a month of Sundays.

Icon for my suggested "next job" for all Microsoft execs involved in this utter pile of arse of an attempt to "do something". Wankers. The lot of 'em.

£1m 'Nobel prize of engineering' named after the Queen

"NAMED AFTER THE QUEEN"

A "Brenda"?

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Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! all hit by webmail phishing scam

A good way to...

...stampede lots of people into changing their passwords?

Call me a cynical old bastard (why not, those *are* my middle names) but if you can do some funky DNS hacking of "enough" DNS servers then surely herding the masses into your trap by releasing email addresses and made up passwords would be a good idea? Your provider panics, tells everyone to change their password and... "enough" pukka passwords fall into your lap to make a killing.

Is anyone else suspicious of this "mass phishing attack"? Wouldn't something have surfaced, somehow?

Just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get me...

FP

ps. SuperGenPass (just google it) - jobs the job for me (even I don't know what any of my site passwords are, including this one)