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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Interesting, in light of this blog article:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-offline-and-ho">http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-offline-and-ho</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Looks like CloudFlare posted an update:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet">http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> outages-announce-bounces@outages.org [mailto:outages-announce-bounces@outages.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Network IPdog<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> OUTAGES Announce List; OUTAGES Discussion List ; OUTAGES Mailing List <br><b>Subject:</b> [Outages-announce] Internet 'bystanders' affected as massive cyber attack hits Spamhaus<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/27/spam-blocking-group-spamhaus-reports-being-hit-by-massive-cyberattack-many/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/27/spam-blocking-group-spamhaus-reports-being-hit-by-massive-cyberattack-many/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The DDoS attack being waged against Spamhaus has reached a previously unheard of magnitude, according to Patrick Gilmore,</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>chief architect at digital content provider Akamai.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Recent</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>cyber attacks -- like the ones that caused persistent outages at U.S. banking sites late last year -- tend to peak at 100 billion bits per second.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The attack on Spamhaus clocked in</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>at… 300 billion.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ruff, Ruff...!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Network IPdog</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ephesians 4:32 & Cheers!!!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A password is like a... toothbrush ;^) </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Choose a good one, change it regularly and don't share it.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>