Sunday, December 10, 2000

Spam as a denial of service attack? According to the AP, Verizon was bombarded by millions of spam messages, slowing e-mail to its dial-up customers. Verizon believes that "it was a malicious attack". --Steve Bellovin [Doneel Edelson cited *InformationWeek*, 18-25 Dec 2000, page 37: That article notes that 70,000 subscribers had delays up to several hours, and this was the *third* spam attack against Verizon in two weeks. PGN] [Steve Bellovin via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 15] 0:00 # G!