The Blue Independence War

Blue Security is a company that has taken on the world’s spammers, and it is now in a fight for its existence against the criminals that clog our inboxes.

Blue Security is under a massive DDoS attack from these spammers by a huge botnet in an effort to win the Spam Wars, which has been renamed the “Blue Independence War” by Blue Security.

First, some background on how Blue Security’s Blue Frog software works- They maintain a community of users that have chosen to “opt out” of spam by putting their email addresses on a “Do Not Spam List.” This list is public. The penalty of sending spam to one of these addresses in violation of the community’s wishes, is that the entire community of users, in one accord, sends email to the spammer or the spamming host, telling them to stop.

Essentially, it is an attack right back at the spammer, using Blue Frog community members as agents to “Shout the Spammer Down.” Many computer security officials do not believe that such active response to attacks is justified under any circumstance. Others believe that enough is enough.

Well, it appears that the Blue Frog campaign is working. Because they pissed off some pretty powerful Internet Criminals, who have responded with an enormous flex of muscle and shut down BlueSecurity.Com and four data centers in Israel. In addition, the cyber attackers were able to “null route” BlueSecurity.com off of the Internet by hacking the BGP peering points on the Internet backbone. This activity by this gang represents a serious cyber-threat to the Internet as well as to email security, and the bad guys cannot be allowed to win.

Right now Blue Security Team members are working over the Israeli holiday to get the site back up and maybe content distributed so it can stay up. So when BlueSecurity.Com gets the site back up, be sure to download the free software and take part in the war against spammers.

From BlueSecurity Blog, serving as the temporary Home Page of BlueSecurity.Com:

The Blue Independence War

Today is Israel’s Independence Day. It’s a public holiday in Israel, but all of us in Blue Security are working. But we are glad we’re working. We’re helping the community fight the Blue Independence War. We fight for our freedom from spammers and cyber criminals. This is our big chance to reclaim the Internet. We must not let it slip from our hands.

Some desperate spammers are doing its worst to harm our community. They’d like us to back off, and agree to get their spam silently. Needless to say, that is not going to happen. We’re not here to listen to their vile threats and fraudulent advertisements. We’re here to stand up for our right not to be let alone.

You may wonder what you can do to help win the Blue Independence War. Here are some ideas:

• Run your frog and report your spam
• Tell you friends to join the fight
• Write to your local newspaper about Blue Frog
• Search for news sites, blogs and forums that discuss “blue security” or “blue frog” and post positive comments
• Ask your representative to show support for the Blue Frog
• If you have a blog, write an item about the blue frog

We need to be patient and prepare for more attacks. Some top spammers embrace the change and comply. Other spammers believe they can coerce us into obedience. Let’s show them this is not going to happen.