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Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul () somewhere com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:05:57 -0600
At 8:25 PM -0500 2/17/03, Transistor Sister wrote:
bounced back to the originating host. The nature of the messages are so varied that they may have been taken from a spam archive somewhere.
One theory I've heard on this is that the script kiddies are using spam for DoS attacks under the (probably correct) assumption that if you report it to the relevant authorities they will dismiss it as "just being spam." This was from someone who had in fact tried to report such a DoS attack and received just that response.
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- Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Transistor Sister (Feb 17)
- Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Hugo van der Kooij (Feb 18)
- Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 18)
- Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Kee Hinckley (Feb 19)
- Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Transistor Sister (Feb 19)
- Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Rohan Amin (Feb 20)
- RE: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Steve Drees (Feb 19)
- Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Transistor Sister (Feb 19)
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- RE: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Dave Hart (Feb 18)
- RE: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Hugo van der Kooij (Feb 19)
- RE: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Dave Hart (Feb 19)
- Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress Hugo van der Kooij (Feb 18)