Lycos Anti-Spam Site Hit By Hackers

We had previously mentioned that Lycos has made and is distributing a tool to attack spammer websites. While that is perhaps effective to some degree, it is also fairly anti-social (fighting one rude behavior with another).

So it is not a big surprise now (along with the more pressing monetary side as well) that hackers are now attacking that site.

Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycos's anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack.

So yeah, you read that right - the spammers were getting fed up with a near DDoS on their sites... so they did a full out one on the anti-spam site.

Something about this is slightly amusing to me - but there is also something unnerving with it, in that it is potentially a sign of how things are going to escalate each time a new anti-spam tool is released.

Posted by Eric at December 1, 2004 11:00 AM | TrackBack