Open Source abuse management
This article was first published in eco’s dotmagazine. Handling abuse is one of the most tedious chores while running an ISP. It is not only boring, but is nearly always time consuming. This can result in abuse handling becoming extremely costly, as there is no monetary compensation for all the time spent on it. It…
Early 2016 AbuseIO organized FIAT!, a conference on internet abuse handling and internet security. With over 100 visitors it exceeded all our expectations. We received a lot of positive feedback and we are happy to announce a new conference. This new edition will be called Abuse(IO) Security Conference II (ASCII). We now request your attention for…
After a little delay removing a final bug and adding a few more improvements we’re happy to announce the release of AbuseIO 4.0. Introducing AbuseIO 4.0 AbuseIO 4.0 is a full rewrite of the original 3.1 code and except for the core logic just about everything has been changed. We’d like to highlight some of…
Friday Februari 5th we organised an event named Fight Internet Abuse Together! aka FIAT! The AbuseIO foundation would like to thank everyone, especially our sponsors BIT, QuarantaineNet, the SIDN Fund and SpamExperts, for their contribution to this successful first event! We hope all attendees enjoyed this event and gained extra knowledge to combat abuse in…
On Friday, February 5th, 2016 the AbuseIO foundation organizes the event, Fight Internet Abuse Together! (FIAT!), Packed with tips and tricks to effectively combat abuse. FIAT! starts at 10:00 and will close at 20.30. Thanks to BIT, Quarantainenet and SpamExperts this event free to all visitors including lunch, dinner and drinks. The presentations giving by…
Already a year has passed since we started to open source this project and looking at the goals we set out back then we surely have surpassed them all. With the help of the entire development team the AbuseIO-4 branch is progressing very nicely and with loads of features. Our developers are still very busy…
If you missed the NLNOG online streams two weeks ago, don’t worry: All the presentations have been uploaded onto YouTube for further reference. Our talk should give some more insight on the system and future plans. We will also be attending the Holland Strikes Back conference on 27 October in The Hague and presenting a…
In our previous blog we have announced with great joy that AbuseIO has been rewarded a contribution from the SIDN Fund. The contribution will enable us to work even faster on our ambitious goal: with AbuseIO there are no excuses for any provider to accept abuse. But this goal will not be achieved easily, many…
The board of the AbuseIO Foundation is very pleased to announce that the AbuseIO project will receive a considerable contribution from the SIDN Fund. The Fund which stands for ‘a strong internet for all’ has been established in 2014. Their objective is to provide financial support to ideas and projects that aim to make the…
After a bit of toying around with a Laravel branch for AbuseIO we are now officially starting development for the next release which will be based on Laravel. With a bit of luck we should be able to release the next version in November and keep up the promise of a 6-month release cycle. Last Tuesday…
With AbuseIO growing rapidly I needed to make sure the project can keep up with the demand and I want to guarantee some kind of continuity in development. Therefore I decided to move this project into a non-profit foundation. With the help from the interim board, consisting of Alex de Joode, Wido Potters and myself, we…
This is for you, AbuseIO Developers! Thank you for all of the long hours, late nights and early mornings you’ve spent coding to build up our latest production release. Since we can’t say thank you enough, I managed to arrange a little gift that shipped out today for everyone that commited.
Today our first public version (3.0) is released for production use. Some ISP’s already started using AbuseIO in production since RC1 and since then we only needed to apply a few small tweaks and bug fixes. We are just getting started and with the help from several contributors we will be starting at the next…
Two weeks ago we started by announcing the existence of our project to the NLNOG and ABUSENL communities and we are still getting good feedback on AbuseIO. It seems well received within the general internet community. Yesterday we started by spreading the word about our project into the world, starting with a blogposting at BIT.…
In December 2014 i decided to launch this project under an Open Source license and since then everything is moving really fast. The amount of interest and support for this project is much greater then i’d even hoped for, which is really a good thing ;) Development of AbuseIO already surpassed my initial goals for…