Rita and panic gas buying

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Everyone should fill up their cars today.  Rita is headed towards a large
number of oil refineries in Texas.

Category 5 Rita eyeballing Texas refineries
http://www.clantonadvertiser.com/articles/2005/09/22/news/a-news.txt

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Hubbard, Dan
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:02 AM
To: Fergie (Paul Ferguson); funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Katrina versus Rita (w/security spin)

Just like Katrina it looks like the fraudsters are anticipating the
hurricane again with loaded bullets on the "spam" button. Although not near
as large we are seeing small numbers of domain registrations under rita +
'relief|donation|fund|hurricane' in the .com and .org domains.

The plus side is that some of them are registered to mark monitor. So
hopefully the Red Cross or someone else is a customer of theirs and they are
protecting the domain space.


# whois ritadonations.com
[Querying whois.internic.net]
[Redirected to whois.markmonitor.com]
[Querying whois.markmonitor.com]
[whois.markmonitor.com]
MarkMonitor.com - The Leader in Corporate Domain Management
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The Data in MarkMonitor.com's WHOIS database is provided by MarkMonitor.com
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Registrant:
        MarkMonitor, Inc. (DOM-1411095)
        391 N. Ancestor Place Boise ID 83713 US

    Domain Name: ritadonations.com

        Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
        Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
        Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com

    Administrative Contact:
        Domain Admin (NIC-14444692)  MarkMonitor, Inc.
        391 N. Ancestor Place Boise ID 83713 US
        eric.jacky () markmonitor com +1.2086851820 Fax- +1.
    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
        Domain Admin (NIC-14444692)  MarkMonitor, Inc.
        391 N. Ancestor Place Boise ID 83713 US
        eric.jacky () markmonitor com +1.2086851820 Fax- +1.

    Created on..............: 2005-Sep-02.
    Expires on..............: 2006-Sep-02.
    Record last updated on..: 2005-Sep-08 11:17:12.

    Domain servers in listed order:

    DNS1.EMARKMONITOR.COM
    DNS2.EMARKMONITOR.COM

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-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:58 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Side by side comparison: Katrina & Rita

I know this has absolutely nothing to do with security (with the exception
of our butts here in the Great State of Texas), but it it is interesting
nonetheless.

As you may have heard, Rita is now the 3rd most powerful hurricane to
approach the U.S. in history:

http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2005/09/hurricane-rita-now-third-most-power
ful.html

And, I've just put up a side-by-side animated comparison of Katrina & Rita
as presented by NOAA:

http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2005/09/side-by-side-comparison-katrina-rit
a.html

The people here are going crazy -- see associated stories on
http://www.statesman.com/ and I'll also be posting from my blog.

I spent most of the day today, as I will tomorrow, turning "down"
network sites all along the Texas Gulf Coast for the state...

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg () netzero net or
fergdawg () sbcglobal net  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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