Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath

Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-05-17

Israeli anti-spam startup Blue Security decided on Tuesday to shutter its aggressive anti-spam service, citing threats of further--and more malicious--attacks on its service and users.

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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-17
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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-18
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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-18
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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-18
Anonymous (7 replies)

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Both comments above are from spammers 2006-05-19
Andrew (1 replies)

Re: Both comments above are from spammers 2006-06-05
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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-19
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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-19
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No more fighting fire with fire 2006-05-21
informed citizen (1 replies)

Re: No more fighting fire with fire 2006-06-01
Anonymous

Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-19
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This is the saddest thing that could happen 2006-05-19
Hawkeye

Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-20
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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-22
Ectox

Ok heres a thought

The spammers can send out all that mail, Yet when they recieve such a small fraction back it causes a Dos? WTF? upload is harder than download people, check your ISPs settings (download rate is likely 3-4x upload rates). I cant see how a 1-1 ratio could cause Dos when they had the capacity to send that much already.

My connection allows for ~5 mbit/s Download and 768kbit/s upload

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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-22
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Reshef backs off and we have to pay for the consecuences 2006-05-22
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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-23
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True anti-spam never dies 2006-05-23
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WHY are there still centralized DNS servers? 2007-06-14
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