Sitefinder and DDoS

Thu Oct 9 19:55:08 UTC 2003

>  > Let's also assume someone sets up a popular webpage with malware
>>  HTML causing it, perhaps with a time delay, to issue rapid GETs to
>>  deliberately nonexistent domains.
>
>You don't even have to imagine that.
>
>Imagine a long-term port 80 Denial of Service (DoS) attack against a
>given website (using the website url rather than IP, which is not
>uncommon).
>
>Imagine the attacked domain administrator removes their DNS records
>from the registry to alleviate the attack.
>
>The attack is now directed at the Verisign Sitefinder service.
>
>     Adam

OUCH. Yet worse.