Outsourced Clue Blog

The founder of the site is now blogging about the issue.
[tags]DDOS,Denial of Service Attack[/tags]

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Interesting. Generally there isn’t much coverage about a DDoS/Blackmail attempt while it’s going on (most target companies don’t reveal to the public they are under attack. I guess when you make a million dollars, others are always going to try and take a piece of it.
Million Dollar Homepage under DDoS Attack.
[tags]DDOS, Denial of [...]

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It always amazes me how many open recursive DNS servers there are in the world. An open recursive server is a DNS server that does recursive queries for ANYONE that queries them. Why is this bad? Well, for one they open you up to DNS reflector attacks (more on those in another [...]

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I saw a post on The Planet’s forums about the user getting shut down because he was a target and participant of a DDOS attack. He couldn’t understand how that could be the case. There are two big possibilities as I see it:
1) You are in the middle of a game of cracker [...]

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This site is one of the better “collection” sites with all things related to DDoS attacks, worms etc.
David Dittrich’s site
[tags]DDOS, Denial of Service Attack[/tags]

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