Hello from Sedo,

The cluster for serving the websites for the Sedo parking program has been attacked by a Bot network or a sophisticated attacker since this afternoon. We are experiencing a SYN flood attack with spoofed IP addresses as the source.

Before getting into details, we want to assure you that we will fully compensate you for the revenue loss that occurred because of the DoS attack.

The tech team is working together with third-party consultants who are experienced in dealing with DoS attacks to get this issue resolved. To give you an idea of the size of the attack: We would need about 200 additional servers to handle the SYN traffic coming in.

The immediate measures against such an attack are very limited. We do have two of the best routers available on the market in front of our network. These routers catch all DoS attacks which can be caught automatically.

We have tuned server parameters and identified certain "evil" subnets which are now filtered. As a result, the load on the system has started to decrease. We continue to filter specific nets and patterns until our system is operational again.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Let me assure you again that all loss in revenue will be compensated.

Sincerely,
the Sedo team

Losses suffered since 8-17-05
(and possibly random prior days)

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Originally posted by SedoCoUk
Hello from Sedo,

The cluster for serving the websites for the Sedo parking program has been attacked by a Bot network or a sophisticated attacker since this afternoon. .

Dear "No Name" Sedo Team:
Afternoon : Germany ? UK ? USA ? Australia ?
We had trafifc/revenue losses since 8/17 and probaly a few random prior dates.

Originally posted by SedoCoUk

Before getting into details, we want to assure you that we will fully compensate you for the revenue loss that occurred because of the DoS attack.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Let me assure you again that all loss in revenue will be compensated.

Sincerely,
the Sedo team [/B]

Will we be compensated for the traffic /revenue lost due to Sedo's wrong forwarding instructions /Server updates ?

You might want to investigate:

http://www.prolexic.com/

A lot of the top online casinos use them, to protect against DDOS attacks.

Just a follow up to the original posting.

We were hit with a DDoS attack over the weekend. However, the problem is solved. As of 10:30 Pm EST all parking pages were up.

An issue with the stats reporting should now be solved as well.

Compensation for the downtime over the weekend has already been issued.

Thank you again for bearing with us while we resolved this matter.

Jay
jay@sedo.com