Blue Security, an Internet security firm that tried to fight spam with spam, has shut down after a prolonged denial-of-service attack launched by the spammers it hoped to put out of business. The Israel-based company tried to use the tactics of spammers against it, using a system that automatically sent messages back to them, operating on the theory that doing so would overload the servers of the original spammers and put them out of commission — at least, temporarily.
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Blue Security Shutters After Brutal Spam Attack
Posted by: Keith Regan May 18, 2006 01:40 PMBlue Security, an Internet security firm that tried to fight spam with spam, has shut down after a prolonged denial-of-service attack launched by the spammers it hoped to put out of business. The Israel-based company tried to use the tactics of spammers against it, using a system that automatically sent messages back to them, operating on the theory that doing so would overload the servers of the original spammers and put them out of commission — at least, temporarily.