GoDaddy is incompetent and should be put out of business
I’ve been seeing numerous SSH attacks from GoDaddy owned networks (domain “secureserver.net”) for the past two days. I’ve sent an email to abuse@godaddy.com for each of those twenty attacks. I haven’t received as much as an auto-reply acknowledging my attack reports. Most hosting service providers at least pay lip service to reports of attacks from their networks. But not GoDaddy. Given their lengthy history (going back several years) of incompetence and malfeasance (see this article for a recent example) I conclude it is time to impose the Usenet Death Penalty on GoDaddy.
Update 2015-05-19: I just emailed the following message to abuse@secureserver.net. I have blocked three of their servers in the past day, seven in the past week, and 56 total. I have yet to receive even an auto-ack of any attack report I’ve made. Clearly GoDaddy doesn’t give a shit if their clients are hurting everyone else.
Dear GoDaddy,
I’ve seen six SSH attacks from 208.109.111.61 in the past 24 hours, 18 in the past week, and 27 in the past month. I sent a report of the first attack that included the log entries below. Do you even give a shit about the security of the Internet? Or does “secureserver.net” mean that your clients are secure from abuse complaints?
May 6 21:19:54 macpro.skepticism.us sshd[9346]: Invalid user nagios from 208.109.111.61
May 6 21:19:54 macpro.skepticism.us sshd[9346]: Received disconnect from 208.109.111.61: 11: Bye Bye [preauth]
May 6 21:19:55 macpro.skepticism.us sshd[9348]: Invalid user admin from 208.109.111.61
May 6 21:19:55 macpro.skepticism.us sshd[9348]: Received disconnect from 208.109.111.61: 11: Bye Bye [preauth]
May 6 21:19:56 macpro.skepticism.us sshd[9350]: Invalid user ubnt from 208.109.111.61
May 6 21:19:56 macpro.skepticism.us sshd[9350]: Received disconnect from 208.109.111.61: 11: Bye Bye [preauth]