Al Musella, DPM wrote: > I can't believe this isn't a big news story.. it has been the focus > of my life for the last 48 hours:)
To be a big news story, it would have to be big and new. It is neither. The impact it has had on the net is negligible. Who can mention 3 sites that have been hit that you would have known about if you weren't a ColdFusion developer? The scale and coordination of the attacks are nothing new either. Mail servers have been under this sort of attack permanently for as long as I can remember. Just bring a blackhole mailserver online that appears to be an open relay and see what happens. The techniques used for (and against) this attack are nothing new. This attack has been running against pages with an .asp extension since May. It is just that only recently they switched from just attacking ASP to other extensions as well. And on top of that there is a story since Monday about DNS that is much scarier and much closer to home to most readers. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309670 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
