The story thus far...

A few fake viagra peddling spammers have taken down:

• the "Blue Security" company website
• the "BlueSecurity" backend system
• a major blog site
• the security company that was hired by Blue Security
• another customer of the the security company that was hired by Blue Security
• various Blue Security Customers
• Tucows DNS service of the domain
• various related and unrelated parts of the Internet infrastructure

I'm sure I missed some things for this list, but it is a good snapshot of some of the damage.

What can be learned here?

It seems that a bunch of badly organized spammers can take down any website or other part of the Internet on a whim. Without detection and without repercussions.

Why should we care?

Imagine for second, that an attack like this was executed by an organization that was more motivated and and more funded? Imagine if they would attack something more important?

See it yet?
If not, here are some hints:

- Don't think motivated like in "these guys really ticked me off". Think motived as in "I would gladly die for this cause."
- Don't think funded like in "the spare change from my last cialis spamming run". Think funded as in "the millions in laundered bank account from friendly sponsors".
- Don't think important like in "millions of people read these blogs". Think important as in "millions of people depend on this system for their immediate safety and health".

More on the subject when I get out from underneath the desk. I really should have taken the blue pill. It's just that it looks so much like the fake viagra.