In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 18 May 2006 12:12:07 -0700, "Bill Gerrard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here is another article, this one mentions Tucows specifically: >http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9000578&source=NLT_VVR&nlid=37 A more thorough article with additional insight is: <http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187200448>: Blue Security Shifted Attack, Brought Down Blogs This is a wild tale of a denial-of-service attack, allegedly orchestrated by a big-time spammer against an anti-spam security company that brought down a blogging site. Some highlights: The denial-of-service attack that crashed TypePad and LiveJournal this week was caused by anti-spam company Blue Security, which pinned the target on the blog in an attempt to save its own servers, analysts said Thursday. Blue Security denied that it knew the attack would crash its blog host. Blue Security's Web site has been overwhelmed by a denial-of-service (DoS) attack for at least the last four days, said Todd Underwood, the chief of operations and security at Manchester, N.H.-based Renesys, an Internet monitoring and routing analysis firm. "Blue Security changed its DNS record, and pointed bluesecurity.com at its blog site hosted by Six Apart's TypePad," said Underwood, "without telling anyone at Six Apart to expect millions of packets per second. That's unacceptable and unethical." When Blue Security redirected traffic to its TypePad blog, the load overwhelmed Six Apart's servers, bringing down all its blogging services, including TypePad and LiveJournal. ... "Blue Security changed its domain name provider to MDNSservice.com, which is owned by Tucows.com [a major software download site]. Yesterday, the DoS either started against name servers, or increased. That did damage to Tucows, which is one of the top 20 registrars. That was bad for everyone who had a domain [with Tucows]." According to Martin Hannigan, who works at Renesys on the technical operations staff, the expanded attack against Tucows brought down 104,000 sites hosted by the company. As of Thursday, Tucows's status page noted that e-mail and Web-based mail were still offline due to "intermittent issues." ... "I don't blame Blue Security for the Tucows attack," said Underwood. "You have to have your name server somewhere. "But if my couch is on fire, I don't push it out of my house and into my neighbor's. It just wasn't ethical for Blue Security to not sound the alarm with Six Apart, and instead to silently redirect the [DoS] traffic to them." Much more to the article. Worth reading in its entirety. -- Best regards, John Navas <http://NavasGroup.com/> _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
