Good to have CC back. That was quite a DDoS.

So glad to have CC back! It had been intermittent even last night, so it was great to get in first time today.

We transitioned to a temp mysql server so we're fine tuning. This one is only for a day or so.

Sounds good. I seem to connect 3 out of 4 times - and I note that the flag in my sig appears correctly about half the time - seems to hang on "downloading picture".

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Bill (AFE7Ret)
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Paul an Robin.. great job! great site.period!

In the news at The Register:

- http://www.theregister.com/2007/02/20/castlecops_ddos/
20 February 2007 ~ "...The motives of the attack are unclear, though it's reasonable to assume the phishing fraudsters or malware authors, who have most to gain from the inavailability of Castecop's website, are the likely perpetrators. Castlecops has become the latest target in a string of attacks targeting organisations looking to frustrate the efforts of phishing fraudsters, spammers, or other internet pond life. Veteran spam fighter Spamhaus suffered a denial of service attack last September, for example, while an attack by a rogue spammer brought down anti-spam firm Blue Security in April 2006. According to Blue Security, a renegade Russian language speaking spammer known as PharmaMaster succeeded in bribing a staff member at a top-tier ISP into black-holing Blue Security's former IP address at internet backbone routers."

What can I say other than I'm darn glad that CastleCops is approaching that bright spot at the end of the tunnel, that I'm impressed and appreciative of Prolexic's generosity in times of need, and that I hope you guys get into a near-Tempest class robust cage?

Keep it up Mr & Mrs CastleCops. As I said elsewhere, you're not alone in this. Frankly, I'm beginning to see the benefits of open distributed content server platforms at this point... Kinda like applying ju-jitsu on DDoS and reverting the gun as a defense.

But enough of that. How about a little bit of good news from the phishing front to add a bright spot?

PS: Technorati apparently shows some actual results for blog entries with a CastleCops tag.

There are times when we are confronted with information that challenges our notions of how the world should work. I don’t really want to encourage hijacking this thread which is supposed to be about Castlecops. Here is just one such report published on the web at the time: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/17/blue_security_folds/ . There were others, some more directly attributed. I can't prove the allegation. However, I do not believe that Blue Security was in the business of deliberately putting out false information. I don’t have the time to look for those and am not sure just how productive that would be. As one who was close to the action, I believe that it happened. Others are free to draw their own conclusions.

Hans

I wasn't suggesting anything at all, just commenting that the allegation, true or not, laked anything substantive in the way of proof of veracity. I was a devoted BFer also, and appreciate greatly what they were trying to do, so don't misunderstand that. But it is dangerous to give credence to rumor and innuendo lacking anything more substantive than a couple of news articles with statements attributed but not verified.

When you fight a war, it is far better to deal from verifiable intelligence that you can rely upon, then subscribe to logical, but unproven, suspicions.

.. for example in this case, enough verifiable intelligence in the form of forensic evidence to put the DDoS ingrate(s) in the slammer!