A friend of my boss is being taken to court by an ISP. She owns a small Internet company and rents a server from a very dodgey ISP. A few weeks back she received a call asking her if she wanted her server patched, as it was exploited. She said yes, but wondered why they were asking, surely that is the ISP's business.
Last week she received a bill for patching the server, later that week she received a letter threatening to seize her assetts and taking her to court for
£14,000 of bandwith overuse. It appears the server was sending huge amounts of mail out, but nothing to do with this woman's company. I think his server was an open for sending mail through.
The bloke who owns the company sent really dodgey graphs (which Duggie analysed and declared virtually worthless) but no access logs, and has sent some very threatening letters through his solicitor.
This woman has panicked and is paying huge amounts of solicitor's fees, she has asked me if I know anyone who could act as an expert in this field, for advice or to act on her behalf as an expert should it end up in court.
I am convinced it never will, but the poor woman is being fleeced left right and centre by solicitors who know nothing of the technology.
If anyone fancies making contact and helping her out drop me a mail and I'll pass on her details.