Blue Security Under Attack

Snowball

I did a quick search in blogger and cannot find any other blogs on blogger.com covering this spammer attack that has been going on this week against the controversial anti-spam tool called Blue Security. I tried searching around on Live Journal as imagine this fiasco is being blogged about, but I seldom use Live Journal and had no successful search results.

An angry spammer announced his pending attack against Blue Security, which I wrote about in my previous 4/26/06 post. (I am new to using their software and I have some doubts as to how effective or not it is). The spammer then sent out threatening email to subscribers asking them not to use Blue Frog as it is spyware set up by a company of Russian Jews. (jezz, just how bigoted is a spammer?) Then Blue Security announced this thread and played down the email as a threat. The spammer then DDoSed blue security websites. As the week wore on, the attack brought down Live Journal on 5/3/06 as well. Blue Security's website and message board have been mostly offline all week. On Tuesday, Blue Security had redirected its domain over to LiveJournal which caused LiveJournal to get targeted by the DDoS knocking it offline for several hours. Some US-based ISPs were caught up in the DDoS attack too and large portions of their networks suffered outages. TuCows was one of the targets. Right now, people who are using Blue Security are unable to report their spam, but Blue Security will have a new setup in time, probably a system that can better handle such sudden unauthorized traffic than before.

So in summary, if you prefer not to take the time to read all those links with much more information than I have the time to type here: here is the situation in a nutshell - some spammer has his boxers in a bunch about blue security by attacking its sites after sending out threatening spam to people who subscribed to Blue Frog and some who did not. This anti-spam group then goofed by redirecting their domain to a major blog while under attack. In the end, many suffered outages on the Internet including some ISPs, some blogging sites and a domain registrar. It makes me wonder how more prevalent such cyberattacks will become.

Other blogs with more details covering this unfolding story:
BlueSecurity, BlueFrog & BlueFreaks That Love Them
The Spamhuntress
The Spam Diaries
Blogger News Network

Message Boards - Discussion about Blue Security
Castlecops.com
Blue Security's Bad Publicity Week Continues: Accused Of Knocking Out Six Apart

5/4/06 News Stories:
Blue Security attack linked to blog crashes
DDoS on Blue Security Blog Knocks Typepad, LiveJournal Offline
Blue Security shifted attack, brought down blogs

posted by my0p @ 7:35 PM