Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:33:12 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: David Babler <root@Rigel.orionsys.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Denial of service attack from "imagelock.com" Message-ID: <19990522193312.C93974@001101.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905221835420.770-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>; from David Babler on Sat, May 22, 1999 at 06:40:20PM -0700 References: <19990522181624.B93974@001101.zer0.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905221835420.770-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 06:40:20PM -0700, David Babler wrote: > > > 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 > > 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 > > Their web client also gleefully ignores robots.txt as well, and spent 2 > hours here chasing web poisoned pages - apparently quitting only when it > didn't find any images to fingerprint. So they're now blocked here at the > firewall too - thanks for the heads-up. Wonder how much they can sell > their service for when they find they don't have access to poke around? Likely they will either give up (I doubt they're getting many customers right now anyway...) or make like the spammers, disguising their entry points and using third-party relays, etc. At least people's eyes have been opened by the spammer bag o' tricks. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter My reality check just bounced. 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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