14 February 2012

Cryptome Not Under DDOS Attack

A sends:

The DDOS attack is in fact a friendly scan by me, similar to the other person who ran Nikto against Cryptome, to help inform Cryptome about weaknesses. Skipfish is more advanced than Nikto, which is why I decided to use it and provide information to Cryptome that is complementary to Nikto's. I did not realize Skipfish was so well-optimized that Cryptome's network connectivity would actually become a bottleneck. The process has been killed by a colleague of mine. I sincerely apologize for this (also to abuse@os3.nl).