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thewayneThis web site "punishes/torments" fake banks and other types of internet frauds by doing something rather unconventional: it requests information. Specifically, it requests an image. In doing so it eats some of the site's bandwidth, eventually/theoretically exceeding the bandwidth that they buy through their hosting ISP and shutting them down.
It's sort of a reverse Denial of Service (DoS)attack. In DoS (there are several variations), a computer literally spews packets of information at a server requesting a page. The requestor ignores the response and just continues spewing. Eventually the server becomes saturated and clogged. Since the requestor is not aknowledging the responses from the target, said target gets lots of open connections until it eventually chokes and crashes. A Distributed Denial of Service involves a zombie army of computers infected with remote control programs: the zombie master sends out an order saying "Flood site 127.0.0.1" (substituting a real address) and the entire army salutes and starts bombarding the target with requests.
So this is sort of a subtle DoS, and possibly legal. I find it amusing because they're targeting bad guys, but what is to prevent a competitor or enemy using the same tech to target your personal or corporate site?
http://www.aa419.org/vampire/ladvampire.html
It's sort of a reverse Denial of Service (DoS)attack. In DoS (there are several variations), a computer literally spews packets of information at a server requesting a page. The requestor ignores the response and just continues spewing. Eventually the server becomes saturated and clogged. Since the requestor is not aknowledging the responses from the target, said target gets lots of open connections until it eventually chokes and crashes. A Distributed Denial of Service involves a zombie army of computers infected with remote control programs: the zombie master sends out an order saying "Flood site 127.0.0.1" (substituting a real address) and the entire army salutes and starts bombarding the target with requests.
So this is sort of a subtle DoS, and possibly legal. I find it amusing because they're targeting bad guys, but what is to prevent a competitor or enemy using the same tech to target your personal or corporate site?
http://www.aa419.org/vampire/ladvampire.html
