Members may have noticed another recent outage for several hours. It was another confirmed DDoS, via a method called "syn flood." In the past, these sorts of attacks have gone on for weeks. We just roll with it.
Why is it good news? It lets us know our efforts are worthwhile, because making internet crime less profitable is exactly what we're trying to accomplish. If we weren't making criminals want to attack us, we'd have to wonder what we were doing wrong. We never expect to achieve the amazing level of spammer ire that Blue Security suffered in it's famous 2006 attack, but then we aren't planning to try to keep the site on line during the attacks. We just fall back to the alternate methods of spreading information. If our attackers would like to try to simultaneously take down Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Wordpress, and all the other sites we've established a presence on, they'll get themselves a lot more law enforcement attention than they're currently planning on.
Comments are open for this blog, though they have to be approved by a moderator. And if you have a comment that seems to merit its own "thread," we can repaste it as a blog post that can get its own comments.
Remember that SiL also has his two blogs, which also accept moderated comments:
http://ikillspammers.blogspot.com/
http://spamitmustfall.blogspot.com/
And we have our other sites for announcements:
http://twitter.com/inboxrevenge
http://inboxrevenge.wordpress.com/
http://inboxrevenge.webs.com/
http://spamtrackers.org
http://inboxrevenge.spaces.live.com/
As always, the best response to retaliation is to continue to do the reporting you were doing before -- but to do more of it.
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