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Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam...
From: Jim Dixon <jdd () vbc net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 20:56:49 +0000 (GMT)
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Barry Shein wrote:
I'm not talking in metaphors, I'm not saying that some spammers IN EFFECT cause denial of service attacks. I am saying that individuals who want to harm sites, and have nothing whatsoever to sell, act like spammers to perform their maliciousness. For example, they take some old "MAKE MONEY FAST!!!" text and bang it at a site 300,000 times in a day, as fast as they can, hoping to cause that site grief, just like a smurf or SYN attack or whatever.
A variant of this approach is that taken by a customer of a customer of ours, who subscribed someone he didn't like to 130 very active email lists. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at these things) he did it rather carelessly, we keep extensive logs, and the FBI and the UK Computer Crime unit were both very interested. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015
Current thread:
- Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Barry Shein (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Ravi Pina (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Dean Anderson (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Barry Shein (Jan 06)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Steve Noble (Jan 06)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Bradley Reynolds (Jan 06)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Jim Dixon (Jan 07)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Ravi Pina (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Eric Osborne (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... NetSurfer (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... J.D. Falk (Jan 07)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Adam Rothschild (Jan 07)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... J.D. Falk (Jan 09)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... NetSurfer (Jan 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Dave Rand (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... gary flynn (Jan 05)