In reply to IMPORTANT. Security Alert!

theGhost•16th of July 2008

Good Job sammie!

Or... I was working on this all day and...

I simply changed my name servers to a landing page...in this case a godaddy landing page. Waited 15 minutes and reset the name servers back to my own. Stop the attack cold. I broke the attack in mid stream and hasn't returned. Yea for me...That was annoying.

I simply removed my url as a potential attacking site probally from their master attack script. The attack only affects BoonEx hosted sites as many other sites on this particular see more

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DoLaugh•16th of July 2008•to theGhost

Can you give more information on the godaddy landing page? I might want to try that.

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theGhost•16th of July 2008•to theGhost

If you register Domains with GoDaddy or anyother Registrar then you have control on Parked, Hosted or Custom name servers. Since I use GD as a Registrar but not a host I always am setting custom name servers. So this attack just allowed me to switch the NS to Parked for a few minutes. Stop it. But then a single check after this post and at 1am a restart this time with a fix in the attack which tells me alot about the attackers and their methods of exploit.

So it was a Temp Fix at best...But damn see more

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