Re: BlueSecurity/Blue Frog

Robert Blair wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006 23:24:04 UTC, "Geoffrey Hyde" 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder how things would have gone if BS had redirected their DOS attack to 
>> somewhere blatantly illegal, like fbi.gov - as far as any of the posts on 
>> the incident itself can tell, it seems to have been some cooperative attempt 
>> between BS and the domain owner of the blog to stem the attacks that 
>> resulted in both BS and the blog site being temporarily inaccessible.
> 
> The only site was being DOSed was BS.  The reason that two sites were 
> down was because BS redirected their DNS to point to the blog site 
> which took it down because of the redirected DOS attack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_service:
> A DoS attack can be perpetrated in a number of ways. There are three basic types of attack:
> 
>    1. consumption of computational resources, such as bandwidth, disk space, or CPU time
>    2. disruption of configuration information, such as routing information
>    3. disruption of physical network components

BS was DoS'd, and in turn BS DoS'd an allegedly "innocent" cite.

There is no argument here, move along.