[Mimedefang] Lycos Screensaver that attacks Spammers
Kenneth Porter
shiva at sewingwitch.com
Wed Dec 1 16:45:22 EST 2004
--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:54 AM -0600 Sean Ware
<sware at midwaygames.com> wrote:
> And today's followup news article where said service goes down in a
> ball of flames:
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39168558,00.htm
SlashDot coverage:
<http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/0250244>
Looks like it was probably a DNS poisoning attack, so the site itself
wasn't taken down. Rather, some clients querying old DNS servers were
redirected to a defaced mirror site set up by the spammers.
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