From my friend, Paul, CastleCops founder: ------------------- As you may be aware, castlecops.com has been under a ddos since last night. It knocked us out for a couple hours, but our ISP and their upstream vendor were able to mitigate. Until now. Upstream vendor has logs, but they have been working on sending it to Johnny all day. I got the call from my ISP about 45 minutes ago. The attack blew out the entire n From my friend, Paul, CastleCops founder:——————-As you may be aware, castlecops.com has been under a ddos since last night. It knocked us out for a couple hours, but our ISP and their upstream vendor were able to mitigate. Until now. Upstream vendor has logs, but they have been working on sending it to Johnny all day.I got the call from my ISP about 45 minutes ago. The attack blew out the entire network at at rates way above normal. He requested that the upstream vendor block all traffic to castlecops.com. At that point, CastleCops entered into a live or die situation. We don’t have the money to add on extra bandwidth. We need help from our friends in industry to stay alive and keep up the fight. This is all that Robin and I do, and we don’t want to stop.Paul Laudanski, Microsoft MVP Windows-Security Phish XML Feed: http://www.castlecops.com/article6619.html Phish Takedown: http://castlecops.com/pirtLinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/49a/17bwww.CastleCops.com | de.CastleCops.com | wiki.CastleCops.comUpdate (2/15/07): Castlecops is back up. Paul reported that the bot net’s Command & Control site was identified and the upstream traffic is being blocked.Update (10/2/07): The person who possibly did this has been arrested.https://www.castlecops.com/a6833-Botmasters_Take_Heed_–_You_Are_Being_Put_On_Notice.html Related content analysis The 5 types of cyber attack you're most likely to face Don't be distracted by the exploit of the week. Invest your time and money defending against the threats you're apt to confront By Roger Grimes Aug 21, 2017 7 mins Phishing Malware Social Engineering analysis 'Jump boxes' and SAWs improve security, if you set them up right Organizations consistently and reliably using one or both of these approaches have far less risk than those that do not. By Roger Grimes Jul 26, 2017 13 mins Authentication Access Control Data and Information Security analysis Attention, 'red team' hackers: Stay on target You hire elite hackers to break your defenses and expose vulnerabilities -- not to be distracted by the pursuit of obscure flaws By Roger Grimes Dec 08, 2015 4 mins Hacking Data and Information Security Network Security analysis 4 do's and don'ts for safer holiday computing It's the season for scams, hacks, and malware attacks. But contrary to what you've heard, you can avoid being a victim pretty easily By Roger Grimes Dec 01, 2015 4 mins Phishing Malware Patch Management Software Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe