Anti-Spammers DDoSed Out Of Existence

Anonumous Coward writes "Not one, but two anti-spam services announced their closure yesterday due to DDoS attacks, massive Joe jobs, threats, and the total lack of interest shown by law enforcement. monkeys.com pulled the plug at midnight with an announcement that makes you think of a suicide note. Short time later compu.net went the very same way. So, when will we see a distributed RBL that can stand up to distributed attacks?"

Comments

probable cause

[poison_reverse]

why cant the goddamn authorities tie in motive with these attacks and go after the spammers who are obviously promoting/funding these attacks?

Here's what cracks me up

[Rogerborg]

We've had a succession of Washington suits yakking on about Information Security, and Cyber War and The Great Potential Threat To Our Infrastructure, and yet when DDoS attacks actually happen, what do they do?

You guessed it. Squat.

There's no votes and no budget in actually fighting crime. There's plenty of capital to be made in selling up the threat, and in promising that you'll fix it, given just a little more time in office, and a slightly larger personal empire.

What I'd like to see is our Dictator of Homeland Security pinned down and made to explain why he's not doing something about the attacks that are happening now. If we can't defend monkeys.com from a DDoS from malicious assholes, how does he expect to believe that we're able to defend safety or economic critical infrastructure from the same kind of attack launched by the truly malevolent?

Re:The Heavy Hitters Are Still Around

[B'Trey]

The argument doesn't hold water - the actions of the DDOS mastermind and the blacklister are not equivalent.

The blacklister provides information to various people who choose, on their own, to say "I do not like what you are doing, Mr. Spammer, and I will not allow you to use MY system to do it."

The DDOSer says "I don't like what you're doing, and I will not allow you to use YOUR system to do it."