Cyveillance & NetSapien - Please read
I've got something interesting for you today.
This morning I had a call from one of our clients. He has a web hosting plan with us and he asked me why he had so many hits from someone with this IP address: 63.148.99.247
I investigated a little bit and found this IP on other users accounts logs. Strange...
Then I found this link -> http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=71568
Yes, this IP address belongs to cyveillance.com ! But why are they visiting so many of our servers?
I thought our servers were about to be hacked when I found another link on google -> http://members.tripod.com/~kenny_a_j...acy/2arch8.htm (start reading from "Eyeball Diversion")
From that site: "It seems that they (cyveillance) have developed a technology called NetSapien, which is a smart web agent - a "spider" which searches the Internet for information by actually looking within sites and newsgroup postings, also managing to look at images and sounds."
Another quote "In other words, for a suitable fee, they will keep an eye on the web to see if anyone is trying anything nasty to discredit your company and/or steal your customers. Obviously, this has serious implications about freedom of speech. Potentially, everything I've ever posted on "Only Visible From the Air" can be monitored and checked for anything which could be damaging."
So what's going on? Because, not only cyveillance is checking (or spying) on users files but they are also stealing our bandwidth! Yes, bandwidth, this same client notice that in one day his site had recorded 17 meg in one day! The entire web site is only 1.25 meg! Well, not anymore...
Two things now:
1 - I think it would be a great idea if we (web hosting companies) could built up a list of Bandwidth stealers and intruders like cyveillance.
2 - We could also do something to strike back.
Any idea?
Vincent Hirth (CEO)
http://www.directoris.com
v.hirth@directoris.com
