November 28, 2004

Lycos to DDOS spammers

by brian_turner

Lycos Europe has set up on a novel precedent – launching DDOS attacks on known spamming websites. The method involves distributing a screensaver for PC and Mac, that sends requests to these sites totally an estimated 3.4 MB of bandwidth – per user.

However, this is obviously a dangerous practice, not least because DDOS attacks could be regarded as illegal – but also because there is always going to be the danger of taking out bona-fide sites.

More information from the Register here: Lycos screensaver to blitz spam servers

Obviously, this is an issue we are going to see more of.

Story link: Lycos to DDOS spammers

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