published: November 24th, 2008
I woke up today to realize that GNUCITIZEN’s web server is bombarded with requests. Good that we are running from a scalable infrastructure. The reason for the storm was a recent disclosure of apparently new Gmail bug similar to the one which I partially and than fully disclosed here, of course after working with the vendor to resolve the problem, which is always the right thing to do.
ReadWriteWeb has a time line on the history of this attack here. Very nice summary I must say. [...]
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