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BlueSecurity Fall-Out Reveals Larger Problem

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the continuing-sagas dept.

mdrebelx writes "For anyone following the BlueSecurity story, sadly the anti-spam crusader has raised the white flag. Brian Krebs with the Washington Post is reporting that after BlueSecurity's announcement, Prolexic and UltraDNS, which were both linked with BlueSecurity through business relations came under a DNS amplification attack that brought down thousands of sites. While much of the focus about the BlueSecurity story has been centered on the question of what can be done about spam, I think a bigger question has been raised - is the Internet really that fragile? What has been going on is essentially cyber-terrorism and from what has been reported so far the terrorist clearly have the upper hand."

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  1. Re:Yes, the internet is that fragile by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like everything else in the computer world, you have to wait for the next great upgrade of the Internet called Web 2.0! Of course, I'm going to wait for SP1 to come out before jumping on the bandwagon.

  2. Maybe they pay more for a tiered solution.... by colinbg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seems to me maybe the solution is a tiered internet where spammers pay more to use the bandwidth... oh wait, sorry wrong discussion.

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    Clever or not, I got nothing...
  3. Dear Homeland Security by subl33t · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Homeland Security: please look closer at Redmond.

    This is terrorism. Everyone with a trojaned Microsoft box is aiding and abetting.

    Thank you, Linus and Steve.

  4. Re:motivation by vertinox · · Score: 5, Funny

    As much as we hate the NSA and other invasive orginizations they impose structure and laws. Chaos is the alternative.

    Emperor Palpatine, is that you?

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    "I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
    -Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
  5. DON'T WORRY GUYS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I backup the internet every night at 10 pm (PST).

  6. Re:interesting question about fragile by Rekolitus · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's this program available for Windows called FastCache which has been more than handy when my ISP's DNS servers have gone down and so forth. You use it as a nameserver by setting your DNS addresses to localhost, and it caches entries for several days.

    It's not something you typically thank every day, but when for whatever reason DNS fails for me, it's a lifesaver.

    Does anyone know of equivalents of this on Linux/Mac?