DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists

Hiawatha writes "The same sort of denial of service attacks that drove spam blocklist Osirusoft off the Internet are battering many other blocklist services as well." Apparently spammers aren't going to sit by and let people try to ignore their unwanted pitches.

Comments

Best defense is a good offense

[Lead Butthead]

So when do we get to launch our DDoS against the spammers again?

MOD PARENT DOWN.

[Anonymous Coward]

Althought he presents a valid arguement, WE DONT WANT TO HEAR THAT!

Try as they may...

[grasshoppa]

Apparently spammers aren't going to sit by and let people try to ignore their unwanted pitches.Too bad my users and I are behind a trained spamassassin, then, eh?

Solution

[alphax45]

Why don't we just offer all the main spammers a free seminar on some small island in the south pacific or somewhere where no one will care, then when they all get there..

NUKE IT!!!

Problem solved :)

MOD PARENT SIDEWAYS

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone appears to want to direct mod power today, so why not?

"Trojan arses"???

[phillymjs]

From the article: In a technique called a "distributed denial of service attack," vandals exploit security flaws to plant programs, called "Trojan arses," on thousands of Internet-connected computers. They then order the Trojan arse programs to spew useless data at a targeted machine.

The mental image of a bunch of Greek soldiers pouring from the sphincter of a huge, wooden butt is just too funny for words.

~Philly

The Internet has you!!

[ph43thon]

the internet has become self-aware.. these aren't trojans and virii that we see.. (well, they are, but) we're seeing the Internot wake up. It's practicing by attacking blacklists.. since they prevent full unfettered emailing. Network Packets have become the flowing nuerons of it's killer Internett brain.. all these random SoBigs and Slammer.Dongs are multiplying to the point where sentient behaviour must emerge!!!!

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA@@@@#!!&nbsp ; you beloNG TO THE INTERRRNOTT@@!!

Yes

[FreeUser]

This is the silliest thing I ever expected to read in a spam story...

pamcop's Haight theorizes that the increasingly sophisticated attacks suggest a link with organized crime, but admits he hasn't a shred of evidence.

Anyone else have a wilder guess?

Yes. It's Aliens launching a denial of service attack in advance of their assimilation of the human race. This is clear and obvious to the most casual observer, although I don't have a shred of evidence to support this notion.

These attacks must be stopped!

[teamhasnoi]

Otherwise, we are going to be a nation of skinny, refinanced, gargantuan penises that want to show you something on our webcams!

I think it's cool...

[ryanvm]

I think this is cool. An epic battle between good and evil rages on the Internet. It's sort of like a Lord of the Rings for geeks. Oh wait, Lord of the Rings is for geeks.

Re:Why does he think it's spammers?

[222]

This wouldn't be a problem if everyone just started setting the "Evil bit" on their spam packets....