I won't mention names but a few popular websites I use have been hit.. one was down for 3 days now.
Recently I set up an annonymous ftp server.. I needed a few people to send me files and I thought that would be the easiest way. the url was private - not published anywhere.. 2 days later my hard drive filled up. But i didn't see any files in the ftp directory. They created a directory whose name was a blank space so a quick look wouldn't see any extra files there, but there were gigabytes of porn, movies and music in there. The funny thing is you can't delete a blank directory name from windows explorer, or even a command prompt. the trick is to go into a command prompt and do a directory that shows the dos version of the filename and delete that! these people are slick.. we have to start fighting back somehow. >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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:309740 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
