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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 2006-05-18
Spider Jerusalem
Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-19
FixitDave (3 replies)
No more fighting fire with fire 2006-05-21
informed citizen (1 replies)
Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-22
anonymouse (1 replies)
Re: Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-22
Anonymous1
The term is "flash mob". It is as much a DDoS as the Slashdot Effect or even being linked by the front page of USAToday.com.

While an individual involved in a flash mob did nothing wrong, there is a difference between an individual and an organizer. Blue Security *organized* the flash mob. This makes them a target for a counter-attack.

I agree with the previous poster: Blue Security was either ignorant to believe that this would not happen to them, or irresponsible to put their hosting ISPs and DNS providers in the line of fire without prior notice.

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True anti-spam never dies 2006-05-23
Tortanick
Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-25
Anonymous (1 replies)
Re: Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-28
A random computer geek (1 replies)
Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-06-01
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Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-06-02
Ex-Blue Frog User
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