Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 18:16:25 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Denial of service attack from "imagelock.com" Message-ID: <19990522181624.B93974@001101.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990522105949.0465d4a0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:05:28AM -0600 References: <4.2.0.37.19990522105949.0465d4a0@localhost>
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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
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