Spammers hack Lycos' anti-spam Web site

[Steve R Jones]

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securit...9168558,00.htm

Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycos’s anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack.

However, within hours of the makelovenotspam.com site being launched, the original front page was replaced with a simple message:

"Yes, attacking spammers is wrong. You know this, you shouldn’t be doing it. Your IP address and request have been logged and will be reported to your ISP for further action."

[mireland]

Originally posted by Steve R Jones
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securit...9168558,00.htm

Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycos’s anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack.

However, within hours of the makelovenotspam.com site being launched, the original front page was replaced with a simple message:

"Yes, attacking spammers is wrong. You know this, you shouldn’t be doing it. Your IP address and request have been logged and will be reported to your ISP for further action."

ironic..ain't it?

[crossedup]

Thing worked for all of a few hours, Lycos should have known that was coming.

[Baddog]

Spammers: "I am afraid we have awoken a sleeping giant"


General Public: "D**m the torpedo's, full speed ahead"

General Public: "We have yet begun to fight"

[r8500]

Heres an update: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...17200&from=rss

[porsch1909]

These hackers are sooo clever you would think they would use their intelligence to do something a lot more meaningfull than this

[Johnny Fist]

Most probably do. Stuff like this is just for fun.

[zybch]

Its really depressing to see the number of ignorant prats who think that it was all about DDoS attacks and that Lycos was initiating them against spammers.
These sad people just don't get it. Very very sad.

[porsch1909]

What is DDoS

[zybch]

DoS = Denial of Service
DDoS = Distributed Denial of Service

Basically a DDoS attack is a heap of PCs (usually infected with a worm/trojan/bot) all requesting data from a single web site, burying it under requests till the site can no longer function.
The Lycos thing never did this kind of mindless attack, it monitored the sites and never used up more than 95% of their capacity. Thus if you were prepared to wait lon enough you could still get through and view the website, just at 5% normal speed.

http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm

Goes into lots of detail, but is easy to read and understand. Plus, its got pictures

[crossedup]

Have read that before but read it again. VERY interesting.

Gives whole new light to cleaning up a trojan ridden machine. Not just doing it for the client, its for me and every other internet user on the planet.

[Prushka]

Was hoping for a different ending

zybch...I'll have to read this later
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm

[zybch]

Yeah, I'm a bit angry that nothing could be done to make that bloody kid or his parents be held responsible, and I can't believe that Earthlink want to protect little schlits like him. They probably protect their little family of spammers even better!
Earthlink also uses questionable browser tokens (Super Cookies), for what ends, nobody really knows. http://grc.com/su/earthlink.htm
So there you go, letting info about their customers be viewed by all, and protecting hackers and probably spammers.