GNG News Guy
05-30-2008, 09:01 AM
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Last weekend I saw that Internet TV company Revision3 (http://revision3.com/) had suffered from a denial of service attack. I thought nothing of it at the time, until I saw this Techdirt (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080529/1253131258.shtml) post that explains the denial of service attack was actually caused by Media Defender. Media Defender is a company hired by the RIAA to disrupt P2P networks by distributing fake files, generating bogus search results and even gobbling up the bandwidth of file providers.
They were a company that flew largely under the radar until a hacking group offered up a flood of internal e-mails for all to see (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/87691). Those e-mails exposed a number of company efforts, including DDoS attacks and the creation of entrapment websites that pretended to offer pirated material. Why would the RIAA's henchmen try to take down a legitimate video network? The CEO of Revision3 explains in a post (http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3):Although Here s what I think really happened. Media Defender was abusing one of Revision3 s servers for their own purposes quite without our approval. When we closed off their backdoor access, MediaDefender s servers freaked out, and went into attack mode much like how a petulant toddler will throw an epic tantrum if you take away an ill-gotten Oreo.
That tantrum threw upwards of 8,000 SYN packets a second at our servers. And that was enough to bring down both our public facing site, our RSS server, and even our internal corporate email basically the entire Revision3 business. Smashing the cookie jar, as it were, so that no one else could have any Oreos either.
Normally a business operation this shady would lose clients who found their lack of ethics (entrapment honeypots) and illegal activity (the repeated use of DDoS attacks) troublesome, but when your primary employer is the RIAA, well....
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Media-Defenders-PR-Problem-Gets-Worse-94851)
Last weekend I saw that Internet TV company Revision3 (http://revision3.com/) had suffered from a denial of service attack. I thought nothing of it at the time, until I saw this Techdirt (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080529/1253131258.shtml) post that explains the denial of service attack was actually caused by Media Defender. Media Defender is a company hired by the RIAA to disrupt P2P networks by distributing fake files, generating bogus search results and even gobbling up the bandwidth of file providers.
They were a company that flew largely under the radar until a hacking group offered up a flood of internal e-mails for all to see (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/87691). Those e-mails exposed a number of company efforts, including DDoS attacks and the creation of entrapment websites that pretended to offer pirated material. Why would the RIAA's henchmen try to take down a legitimate video network? The CEO of Revision3 explains in a post (http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3):Although Here s what I think really happened. Media Defender was abusing one of Revision3 s servers for their own purposes quite without our approval. When we closed off their backdoor access, MediaDefender s servers freaked out, and went into attack mode much like how a petulant toddler will throw an epic tantrum if you take away an ill-gotten Oreo.
That tantrum threw upwards of 8,000 SYN packets a second at our servers. And that was enough to bring down both our public facing site, our RSS server, and even our internal corporate email basically the entire Revision3 business. Smashing the cookie jar, as it were, so that no one else could have any Oreos either.
Normally a business operation this shady would lose clients who found their lack of ethics (entrapment honeypots) and illegal activity (the repeated use of DDoS attacks) troublesome, but when your primary employer is the RIAA, well....
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Media-Defenders-PR-Problem-Gets-Worse-94851)