[Project_owners] UPDATE Mail Attack on Mozdev

[Pete Collins]

Pete Collins wrote:
> Currently there is some rampant Windows mail virus propagating on the net.
> 
> It is pouning on Mozdev mail and driving up the load.
> 
> I will monitor it some more, but if it continues, I may need to shut 
> down the listts for a while.

Well it looks to me like Mozdev was attacked today just like it was on 
the July 4th attaack.

user "www" spawning off many perl processes, killing the mysql engine etc.

Anyone know about this specific attack?

I locked out access to bugzilla and cvsweb and the problem seem to be 
rectified.

Seems like an attempt to overload the amount of connections to the mysql db.

The good news is, other than the load being too hign, the new server 
handled it all w/out a problem.

--pete


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Pete Collins
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