HELP - Buying Webspace and Registering a Domain

[snakefing]

This is a little off topic, but since the issue came up:

I work for a computer security company. Among the services we offer is some "ethical hacking" which is basically a simulated reconnaissance and attack on the client's network. This is a very touchy area, and we basically have to notify the local FBI each time we do this, in case someone who is not wise to the test notices us. (Never happens though.)

Mailing lists like these are a primary means for sharing information about what the hackers are doing out there. Of course, there are also bad guys on these lists, but basically the real bad guys don't post their tricks in public. There's no reason to think that seclists.org is nefarious in any way. (In fact, Fyodor is pretty well known, by his nick anyway.) However, occasionally bad guys will post stuff to these lists, perhaps to show off, or maybe because their attempt at extortion/blackmail failed.

You really have no idea how often US banks (and probably European ones too) pay money to hackers from Russia to keep security breaches from making into the news. They usually ask for some small amount like $5000, and it would easily cost the bank that much in legal costs alone, to say nothing of lost business and reputation.

It is a big problem, but the thing you can do is to practice safe computing. Keep your computer protected, use your firewall, don't let someone else turn your computer into a platform for their nefarious schemes. There are lots of good free products out there like AVG Free for anti-virus, ZoneAlarm for firewall, Spybot or Ad-Aware for spyware.