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The Attack of the Spiders from the Clouds

2008-07-31 15:09:19 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...spiders that would not follow our robots.txt directive not to crawl the site. One of the bots was from Russia, one was from China, and another one was from Korea. There were spiders from places I never heard of, all consuming precious resources and denying our users So, I did what any Linux admin would do. I used iptables to block the...
 
Tags: attack, spiders, ec2-67-202-45-0, ec2, amazon ec2 cloud, cloud, clouds, attack runs, hungry spiders
 
 
 
 
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The Bot Hunter: An Event Processing Challenge

2008-08-15 09:35:00 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Spiders from the Clouds where we mentioned how cloud computing infrastructures can be used to stage malicous or accidential network attacks Today I challenge our CEP/ESP/EP vendors (or SIs) to create the following solution to detect and block rogue bots on Apache web sites. I will install and test each submitted solution on The UNIX Forums...
 
Tags: bot, winner, bot hunter winner, bot based, non-bot results, results, bot scorecard, solution, block rogue bots
 
 
 
 
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How the MPAA Might Enforce Copyright on the Internet

2008-02-11 13:24:03 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...spiders for torrents. When it finds torrents, it connects to each torrent with manipulated clients. The client would first transfer enough content to verify copyright, and then attempt to map the participants in the Torrent Now the MPAA has a "map" of the participants, a graph of all clients of a particular stream. Simply send this as an...
 
Tags: mpaa, torrent, isp, map, current graph, graph, network, copyright, participants
 
 
 
 
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The two faces or Privila

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2008-03-06 19:02:12 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
...spiders are presented with an almost empty page: just a header but neither adverts nor articles. You can try this yourself, by using the User Agent Switcher Firefox extension and a list of user-agent strings I expect the interns who wrote these articles will be displeased that their articles are hidden from view. Google will doubtlessly be...
 
Tags: articles, articles re-appear, adverts, user-agent, user-agent strings, google, page, google download, appears
 
 
 
 
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The two faces of Privila

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2008-03-06 19:02:12 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
...spiders are presented with an almost empty page: just a header but neither adverts nor articles. You can try this yourself, by using the User Agent Switcher Firefox extension and a list of user-agent strings I expect the interns who wrote these articles will be displeased that their articles are hidden from view. Google will doubtlessly be...
 
Tags: articles, articles re-appear, adverts, google, page, google download, appears, empty page, web server appears
 
 
 
 
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The Phorm Webwise System

2008-04-04 16:53:06 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...spiders and other automated processing systems should not examine the site. This goes a little way towards obtaining the permission of the website owner for intercepting their traffic however, in my view, failing to prohibit the GoogleBot from indexing your page is rather different from permitting your page contents to be snooped upon, so...
 
Tags: phorm, system, phorm assumes, phorm argue, phorm system, extensive technical details, technical details, system anonymises, details
 
 
 
 
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Information Security Reading List

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2008-05-16 17:12:39 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...Spiders die, starfish regenerate - think about that next time you are designing access control. Interestingly enough, Rod Beckstrom is now the cyber security czar , and I am very hopeful to see some good things come out of this appointment. Its very interesting to think about OWASP as a starfish organization. Totally decentralized, I believe...
 
Tags: information security, security, information security books, books, web app security, information security literature, 21st century security, cyber security czar, software security
 
 
 
 
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Bumblebees Making Security Trade-Offs

2008-09-08 12:52:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...spiders -- they also became increasingly wary When they come in to inspect flowers, they spend a little bit longer hovering in front of them when they know a camouflaged spider is present," said Dr Ings With this "trade-off", the bees may lose valuable foraging time -- but they reduce the risk of becoming the crab spider's next meal
 
Tags: security trade-offs, spider, crab spider, bees, increasingly wary, inspect flowers, natural world, front, system
 
 
 
 
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7 Fantastic Internet Hoaxes

2008-10-25 21:50:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Despite our increasing technological sophistication, we can't help falling for email about Bigfoot, giant mutant cats, doomed tourists, and deadly butt spiders
 
Tags: giant mutant cats, deadly butt spiders, technological sophistication, email, bigfoot, tourists
 
 
 
 
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7 Fantastic Internet Hoaxes

2008-10-25 21:50:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Despite our increasing technological sophistication, we can't help falling for email about Bigfoot, giant mutant cats, doomed tourists, and deadly butt spiders
 
Tags: giant mutant cats, deadly butt spiders, technological sophistication, email, bigfoot, tourists