BlueSecurity Fall-Out Reveals Larger Problem

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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Re:Fragile Internet? No...

[AnotherBlackHat]

... the tens of thousands of pwn3d Windows PC's ...

More like "hundreds of thousands".

My spam traps have been hit by over 1.5 million unique IPs this year alone,
with an additional 30,000 never before seen IPs every day.
I estimate there are currently 3-4 million compromised machines world wide.

-- Should you believe authority without question?

Re:interesting question about fragile

[0xC2]

"Terrorists are interested in killing people to get their message across, not inconveniencing them." Totally wrong. Why do you think the most secure facilities in the world are the oil refineries? Terrorists absolutely love to take out pipelines, interrupt utilities, railroads, etc.. Look at the attacks on the Christian stores in Bagdad selling liquor. The affected people are also much more likely to blame the government for failing to protect services taken out by these attacks. For the money we have spent so far fighting "terrorists" we could have saved tens of thousands of lives, just by building safer, more expensive cars. from http://www.scienceservingsociety.com/p/141.htm : More than a million people are killed on the world's roads each year, the victims overwhelmingly young. In the United States more people die in a typical month in traffic crashes than died in the September 11 terrorist attacks. And for every fatality in a traffic crash, about 40 injuries occur, many of them severe. These traffic deaths and injuries include those among pedestrians and cyclists, as long as a motorized vehicle was involved. The number of traffic deaths worldwide continues to increase as more nations motorize. In the United States the number of traffic deaths has remained relatively constant at about 41,000 per year for the last decade. The economic impact of terrorism is much larger than its mortal impact.