Vulnerable Servers Warned

FTC seeks to secure more than a million servers

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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114528,00.asp

FTC seeks to secure more than a million servers that can be spoofed by spammers.

Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Thursday, January 29, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Trade Commission has identified more than 1 million IP addresses that provide open proxies or open relays, which spammers can tap to hide their identities, and is alerting server owners that they might be inadvertently helping spam.

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Some of the Countries ( and respective departments ) involved:

1. Albania

   Consumer Protection Department, Ministry of Economy

2. Argentina

   Undersecretary of Defense of Competition and Consumer Defense
   
   

3. Australia

   Australian Communications Authority
   Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
   
   

4. Brazil

   Consumer Protection and Defense Department

5. Bulgaria

   Commission on Trade and Consumer Protection

6. Canada

   Competition Bureau Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications (SITT)
   Spectre, technologies de l'information et télécommunications (SITT)
   
   

7. Chile

   Servicio Nacional del Consumidor

8. Colombia

   Superintendencia de Industria Y Comercio - Colombia

9. Denmark

   Forbrugerombudsmanden (site in Dansk)
   Consumer Ombudsman (site in English)
   
   

10. Ecuador

    Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, Industrializacion, Pesca y Competitividad

11. Finland

    Consumer Ombudsman

12. Hungary

    General Inspectorate for Consumer Protection (GICP) (site in English)
    Fogyasztóvédelmi Főfelügyelőség (FVF) (site in magyar)
    Competition Authority (site in English and magyar)
    Gazdasági Versenyhivatal (site in English and magyar)
    
    

13. Jamaica

    Jamaica Fair Trading Commission

14. Japan

    Cabinet Office Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
    Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications
    
    

15. South Korea

    Korea Fair Trade Commission

16. Lithuania

    National Consumer Rights Protection Council

17. Norway

    Ministry of Transport and Communications
    Norwegian Post and Telecommunication Authority
    Consumer Ombudsman
    
    

18. Panama

    Comisión de Libre Competencia y Asuntos del Consumidor (CLICAC)
    
    

19. Peru

    INDECOPI

20. Romania

    Romanian Ministry of Interior's General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Antidrug

21. Serbia

    Antimonopoly Department, Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Services
    
    

22. Singapore

    Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

23. Spain

    Instituto Nacional del Consumo

24. Switzerland

    State Secretariat for Economic Affairs

25. Taiwan

    Consumer Protection Commission
    Directorate General of Telecommunications, MOTC
    
    

26. United Kingdom

    Office of Fair Trading Department of Trade and Industry U.K. Information Commissioner
    

...and of course, The United States Federal Trade Commission.

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/secureyourserver/partners.htm

Nice to see.