What we see so far is that large amounts of repeat attack do stem from the same ip:s, so shutting them down should lessen the overall amount of abusive traffic on the net as well as repeat abuse against your server(s).
For now, the service is completely free so we hope that server admins all over the world are willing to do large scale reporting of network abuse against their servers and that it will mean a decrease in abusive traffic. In the long run that would make it less viable to carry out these forms of attacks and lessening spam would certainly be something that benefitted everyone.
As a thanks for helping out with the reporting we also try to provide these server admins with some security tips which relate directly to their servers.
We believe it is time to stand up to the hackers and spammers which is why we try to encourage people to be good netizens and report the abusive network traffic to their web servers.
Just CC your Logwatch reports to us and we will make sure the failed hacking attempts get reported to the appropriate ISP.
At least now that he's head of engineering at Google he might have a chance of making his predictions about robot servants and intelligent glasses come true.
Great tool! I found out about it just now from the article.
Any thoughts of cross platform compatibility for the future? I find one of the best features of KeePass is the fact that it can be used on all my computers (even the ones not running Linux).
A beta version probably should be free due to it being a non-finished product.
On my current project (https://report4me.com) we're trying the free beta model not only to get beta testers but also to determine a price point.
We give away the product to beta users for the foreseeable future, with the intent to ask them outright what they feel the product would be worth. The idea is that since they can feel comfortable that they won't actually have to pay the price they mention they might actually be more honest about it.
For now, the service is completely free so we hope that server admins all over the world are willing to do large scale reporting of network abuse against their servers and that it will mean a decrease in abusive traffic. In the long run that would make it less viable to carry out these forms of attacks and lessening spam would certainly be something that benefitted everyone.
As a thanks for helping out with the reporting we also try to provide these server admins with some security tips which relate directly to their servers.