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It turns out that Bluesecurity did not change their DNS to point to their blog after the DDoS attack began. Rather, the spammer somehow managed to block all non-Isreali access to their website (presumably by messing with BGP or similar). At that point, Bluesecurity updated DNS to point to their blog and post updates.
40 minutes after updates began getting posted to the blog, the spammer launched their DDoS attack against TypePad, which included LiveJournal. Who cares that 10 million journals and communities were affected, that spammer has a right toscam people make a profit, dammit! Appproximately 16 hours after that, and seeing that TypePad wasn't going away, the spammer attacked Tucows, who provided DNS to bluesecurity.com. In an attempt to get the attacks to stop, Tucows terminated service to Bluesecurity and caused further disruption.
Here's the final score:
Cheers to SixApart to standing up the to attack and dealing with it.
Cheers to Bluesecurity for refusing to allow a criminal spammer to strongarm them into shutting up.
Jeers to Tucows for letting themselves be bullied into terminating Bluesecurity's DNS services.
I SO want this spammer's head on a stake.
It turns out that Bluesecurity did not change their DNS to point to their blog after the DDoS attack began. Rather, the spammer somehow managed to block all non-Isreali access to their website (presumably by messing with BGP or similar). At that point, Bluesecurity updated DNS to point to their blog and post updates.
40 minutes after updates began getting posted to the blog, the spammer launched their DDoS attack against TypePad, which included LiveJournal. Who cares that 10 million journals and communities were affected, that spammer has a right to
Here's the final score:
Cheers to SixApart to standing up the to attack and dealing with it.
Cheers to Bluesecurity for refusing to allow a criminal spammer to strongarm them into shutting up.
Jeers to Tucows for letting themselves be bullied into terminating Bluesecurity's DNS services.
I SO want this spammer's head on a stake.