One of my clients is an umbrella organization for a few local community health centers, and there has been a steady stream of empty POST submissions to their website -- at the rate of about 2/second -- for about 4 straight months now. Virtually every hit is from a unique IP address, so the spoofing is either great, or the botnet is enormous. This is normally a VERY low-traffic site, so the attack constitutes about 99% of their traffic at this point.
I'm assuming that the timing of the start of the attacks -- just as the Affordable Health Care Act came into effect -- is not a coincidence. It's a brain-dead attack, and easy to mitigate, but I'm a bit dumbfounded that it continues to this day, despite having no effect on the accessibility of their site at all.
While I have to admit that this is damn nifty, I've been in the market for something that does this with video as well. I have an EyeTV PVR, and El Gato makes EyeHome that appears to be much like this AirPort Express, but with all the missing features -- streams iTunes, streams video, allows surfing on the TV (with Safari bookmarks), etc. At about twice the price of the new AirPort Express, you're paying for the features, but it does seem a step ahead. Anyone have an EyeHome that can give some details on quality?
Last week, while scanning the various news sites for information, I was constantly faced with examples of the unreliability of the major US news sources. I noted this in particular:
On cnn.com, Oct 15:
"(Gen. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) said that despite the Taliban claims of civilian deaths in Koram 'there were no bomb craters in that village.'"
On the AP wire, same time:
"The Taliban also escorted journalists to the village, which appeared to have been largely destroyed. Giant craters were visible as well as several fresh graves. Carcasses of dead animals lay here and there along with bloodied pillows."
That sort of reporting merely strengthening my total lack of faith in corporate media. I've been relying more heavily on the Guardian for better coverage, and IndyMedia for posts of stories buried in smaller publications.
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One of my clients is an umbrella organization for a few local community health centers, and there has been a steady stream of empty POST submissions to their website -- at the rate of about 2/second -- for about 4 straight months now. Virtually every hit is from a unique IP address, so the spoofing is either great, or the botnet is enormous. This is normally a VERY low-traffic site, so the attack constitutes about 99% of their traffic at this point.
I'm assuming that the timing of the start of the attacks -- just as the Affordable Health Care Act came into effect -- is not a coincidence. It's a brain-dead attack, and easy to mitigate, but I'm a bit dumbfounded that it continues to this day, despite having no effect on the accessibility of their site at all.
I live in Baltimore city, and there ain't no "Ubiquitous wireless networks" around any of my coffeeshops, dammit.
While I have to admit that this is damn nifty, I've been in the market for something that does this with video as well. I have an EyeTV PVR, and El Gato makes EyeHome that appears to be much like this AirPort Express, but with all the missing features -- streams iTunes, streams video, allows surfing on the TV (with Safari bookmarks), etc. At about twice the price of the new AirPort Express, you're paying for the features, but it does seem a step ahead. Anyone have an EyeHome that can give some details on quality?
Last week, while scanning the various news sites for information, I was constantly faced with examples of the unreliability of the major US news sources. I noted this in particular:
On cnn.com, Oct 15:
On the AP wire, same time:That sort of reporting merely strengthening my total lack of faith in corporate media. I've been relying more heavily on the Guardian for better coverage, and IndyMedia for posts of stories buried in smaller publications.