Users who’ve signed with spam fighting company Blue Security have been recently targeted by spammers and attackers. And on Tuesday a massive denial-of-service attack was launched on Blue Security’s web site which then knocked millions of TypePad and LiveJournal blogs…
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Antispam list gets spammed and DDoS attack on Blue Security Blog knocks Typepad, LiveJournal offline
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