The Internet is a huge place. Some locations of it are awesome, but others are...less so. And falling absolutely in that closing class is the age-old .su domain, once the cyberhome of the Soviet Union. It's not absolutely able-bodied maintained, or able-bodied policed, which is why added and added online abyss are application it as a hideout.
Assigned to the -to-be non-existent Soviet Union 23 years ago, the .su TLD has been an drop for best than it had a country to alarm home. But clashing the TLDs for Yugoslavia or East Germany, it didn't abandon with its nation-state namesake acknowledgment to adamant attrition by its owners of the time.
Until recently, the .su area has been the home of weird, but legitimate sites. But if the administrators for Russia's .ru got a little added austere about what they would and wouldn't allow, scammers and hackers akin began to drift to the out-dated .su, which saw its citizenry of sites bifold in 2011, and afresh in 2012.
From the Associated Press:
The a lot of belled website was Exposed.su, which purportedly appear acclaim annal acceptance to President Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, Republican presidential challengers Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, and celebrities including Britney Spears, Jay Z, Beyonce and Tiger Woods. The website is now defunct.
Other Soviet sites are acclimated to ascendancy botnets—the name accustomed to the networks of hijacked computers acclimated by abyss to abandoned coffer accounts, crank out spam, or barrage attacks adjoin battling websites.
The area is currently controlled by the Moscow-based nonprofit Foundation for Internet Development, who've been acclimation it back 2007. And with the contempo bang of coarse sites, the plan is to bind things down a bit, starting with a new action rolling out this summer.
.su is home to some 120,000 sites—a amount of which are in fact legitimate—so shutting it down absolutely would be cool difficult. Hopefully the allotment lock-down can accomplish it beneath of a weirdly anachronistic cyberspace anchorage for evil. But hey, we could apparently get at atomic one added "James Bond vs. the Soviets" cine out of this, right? [PhysOrg]
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