What Happened to Blue Security

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 8, 2006 @02:51AM from the bad-news-for-anti-spam dept.

shadowknot writes "Blue Security has published a detailed account of the attack on their servers perpetrated by spammer "PharmaMaster". The attack included a DDoS attack on the Blue Security operational system and a Black Hole filtering attack on the Blue Security website. From the article: "The first attack was to block worldwide access to Blue Security's corporate website (www.bluesecurity.com) by tampering with the Internet backbone using a technique called "Blackhole Filtering". The Second attack was a DDoS attack on Blue Security's operational system."

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If they were attacked... by The+MAZZTer · 2006-05-08 03:51 · Score: 5, Funny

...they must be doing something right! I'm signing up.

Thanks PharmaMaster for referring me!
Re:Blackmail tactics by Urusai · 2006-05-08 04:00 · Score: 5, Funny

"...we'll fight them at the routers, we'll fight them on the backbone, we'll fight them at the ISP, we'll fight them at the firewall; we shall never surrender."