FYI...

- http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/i.../printable.html
June 11, 2007 ~ "Several antispam organizations have been targeted by an attempt to knock them offline... SANS' Internet Storm Center (ISC) said* a "pretty big" distributed denial of service (DDOS) offensive had targeted several high-profile organizations, including Spamhaus, SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists) and URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklist). Rules Emporium, a site hosting rules for the open source SpamAssassin antispam program, was also offline, and may have been targeted as well... As of Monday, Rules Emporium and URIBL were still not reachable, while Spamhaus and SURBL appeared to have recovered... Denial of service attacks are a routine risk for antispam groups, but the current attack is similar to those carried out against Blue Security just over a year ago using botnets controlled by the Storm malware, according to SANS. The attacks caused Blue Security to exit the antispam business..."
* http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2940
Last Updated: 2007-06-07 21:34:57 UTC