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CastleCops Hit by Another DDOS Attack
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffcc;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d26a3143-a1d3-482b-bbe3-55faab023ee2/DB64D210-E7C9-4A70-A6BE-8376FF84964F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497&WT.svl=news1_2" href="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497&WT.svl=news1_2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.darkreading.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497&WT.svl=news1_2"><H2 class="headline">CastleCops Hit by Another DDOS Attack</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497&WT.svl=news1_2"><B>But this time, attackers employ a 'POST' attack</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497&WT.svl=news1_2"><FONT><FONT class="smalltext">MARCH 28, 2008</FONT> | 3:20 PM </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497&WT.svl=news1_2"><FONT>Security watchdog site <A target="new" href="http://www.castlecops.com">CastleCops </A> is currently under yet another distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. The anti-spam, anti-malware site manned by volunteers has been under siege from waves of botnet traffic since Wednesday. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497&WT.svl=news1_2"><FONT>CastleCops is no stranger to DDOS attacks -- it gets hit regularly, with its most recent attack back in August -- but this one took a different spin on an old trick. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497&WT.svl=news1_2"><FONT>"Typically, attacks involve some sort of HTTP GET, but this one seems to include a POST instead," says Paul Laudanski, founder and administrator for the CastleCops site, who says he first detected the attack on Wednesday morning after noticing some performance problems with the site. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497&WT.svl=news1_2"><P> <FONT>He initially witnessed a rise in the server load and a pattern in the server logs that indicated a DDOS, he says. </FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DB64D210-E7C9-4A70-A6BE-8376FF84964F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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