Spam Wars Spread

This is fantastic - after the Blue Frog site collapsed under a massive zombie bot attack, they redirected visitors to the bluesecurity.com website to a blog entry explaining what was going on. But apparently, the bot attack was so massive, that it actually wiped out TypePad and LiveJournal, two of the largest blog hosting services on the net. Whoever Blue Frog has upset is pretty powerful. My only hope is that they are powerful in computer geek sort of way, not in a Russian Mafia sort of way. I think we can take this as evidence that the spam lords see Blue Security's strategy as a genuine threat. Of course, as long as my frog can't communicate with the mother ship, its all pretty pointless. Hopefully the Blue Security people can come up with a creative way to neutralize the bot attack.

The spam-fighting service Blue Security has been under siege by spammers and digital attackers in recent days. On Tuesday it wound up sharing its pain with a large chunk of the blogosphere. When Blue Security's web site was hit by a distributed denial of service attack attack (DDoS), the company temporarily repointed www.bluesecurity.com to a blog on Six Apart's TypePad service. The DDoS traffic appears to have followed www.bluesecurity.com to its new home, overwhelming Six Apart's network and knocking its TypePad and LiveJournal services offline for nearly eight hours.