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April 17th, 2003, 07:42 PM
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DoS using USPS
I read an interesting paper the other day and haven't seen it posted here yet...
I got a kick out of it... We used to do this to a couple of our boys when I was at the University. Just not on a scale like this... What will they think of next?
Automated Denial-of-Service Attack Using the U.S. Post Office
In December 2002, the notorious "spam king" Alan Ralsky gave an interview. Aside from his usual comments that antagonized spam-hating e-mail users, he mentioned his new home in West Bloomfield, Michigan. The interview was posted on Slashdot, and some enterprising reader found his address in some database. Egging each other on, the Slashdot readership subscribed him to thousands of catalogs, mailing lists, information requests, etc. The results were devastating: within weeks he was getting hundreds of pounds of junk mail per day and was unable to find his real mail amongst the deluge.
Ironic, definitely. But more interesting is the related paper by security researchers Simon Byers, Avi Rubin and Dave Kormann, who have demonstrated how to automate this attack.
Read the rest here.
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