May 17th, 2006 Update: Blue Security, the antispam outfit that actually started to make a difference in the war against spammers, surrenders under their relentless attacks. How disappointing.
May 5th, 2006 Update: Blue Security sends out a press release explaining what happened and identify the culprit of this criminal attack.
May 2nd, 2006: News on slashdot.org that a small group of spammers have mounted a concerted attack on Blue Security, a company that automatizes the operation of opting out of spam in an anynomous way, which I am happy to confirm, pisses off a lot of those slimey spammers. I higly recommend their free product called Blue Frog (Do note that the site is currently limited to a few pages since they are under attack. Regular pages and the registration page should be online once this settles). This is proof that it's working! Over 3 days from May 1, they have:
- sent a wave of spam messages containing misleading information about Blue Security, and scurrilous attacks on its executives, urging members to cancel
- sent another wave of spam with threats against Blue Security members
- sent a third wave of Joe-Job spam purporting to be from "Blue Frog Member" with forged sender name, but describing Blue Security's operation in misleading terms. This spam is targetted to annoy those people on their spammer lists who usually complain the most
- mounted a denial of service attack on all Blue Security web sites. Although they claimed success, the www.bluesecurity.com web site was actually unable to cope with the deluge of interest from Slashdot readers!
As a result of this concerted attack, Blue Security's profile in the electronic media has been considerably raised. Do note that the site is currently limited to a few pages since they are under attack. Regular pages should be online once this settles.
