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!

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

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!