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."

Comments

DNS is still a mess

[Joe U]

It's time we started thinking up an alternative to the current DNS setup.

DNS in its current state is:
Easy to break.
Easy to use to break other systems.
Tied too tightly into SMTP. (Think about it)
Tied in to the whims of ICANN and whoever tells them what to do.
Tied in to the whims of Verisign.

DNS is the Achilies Heel of the Internet. (One of several apparently, but that's another article)