From owner-freebsd-security Sat May 22 18:17:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from 001101.zer0.org (001101.zer0.org [206.24.105.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6765914E85 for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 18:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@001101.zer0.org) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by 001101.zer0.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) id SAA03021; Sat, 22 May 1999 18:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 18:16:25 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Brett Glass Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Denial of service attack from "imagelock.com" Message-ID: <19990522181624.B93974@001101.zer0.org> References: <4.2.0.37.19990522105949.0465d4a0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990522105949.0465d4a0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:05:28AM -0600 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:05:28AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > This morning, someone at the domain "imagelock.com" apparently launched a > denial of service attack against a Web server I administer. The abuser was > repeatedly downloading large image files simultaneously. While the log > entries say that the user agent was "Mozilla > /3.01C-PBWF", this was clearly spoofed; no Netscape user could possibly > browse that fast. imagelock.com has been banned from my web servers ever since they initiated a DoS attack against me a few months ago. Basically, they download every accessible file on a website. The company's MO is to check all images, etc. on a site in order to determine where on teh web "copyrighted information" is being stored, so people can be prosecuted for misusing copyrighted images. Not only does their hard-hitting web client suck, their business model is disgusting. I hate everything about these people; I hope their skulls accidentally get crushed by a steamroller. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Was Jimi's modem a Purple Hayes? mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message