<font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I got another similar threat for another Russian who's name was <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; ">Igor</em> </span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Sysoev. He wanted $100,000,000,000!!!</span><br>
</font></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Just kidding! Out of serious though there are cloud services to help mitigate against DDoS attacks. I have friends that work for this one:</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.ultradns.com/Services/SiteProtect">http://www.ultradns.com/Services/SiteProtect</a> which starts at $500 a month. I'd be happy to get you some information.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">but I think there are others that may be less expensive. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Rami <br></span></font></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Valery Kholodkov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:valery%2Bnginxen@grid.net.ru">valery+nginxen@grid.net.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Sounds like a dark PR of Amazon Cloud Services. Well, I can image, hating Russians is profitable...<br>
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Would it be possible to tell me your name, residence address and occupation please?<br>
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----- ex2501 <<a href="mailto:nginx-forum@nginx.us">nginx-forum@nginx.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> Since last week, Our website SuntekStore.com has been under DDOS<br>
> (Distributed Denial Of Service)attack by someone who goes by the name of<br>
> Ivan Alekseevich Ivanov from Khabarovsk, Russia and he demanded $3,500<br>
> to stop the attack. We ignored him and decided to try Amazon Cloud<br>
> Service.<br>
><br>
> Please beware of Russians!! I also searched the Internet for better ways<br>
> to prevent DDOS ATTACK. All I got was 'prevention is better than cure'.<br>
> It said that DDOS happens because of vulnerable softwares/applications<br>
> running on a machines in a particular network. If there is any good<br>
> idea, please tell me here:)<br>
><br>
> First Name - Ivan Alekseevich<br>
> Last Name - Ivanov<br>
> country - Russia<br>
> City - Khabarovsk<br>
> <a href="mailto:zhakkab@gmail.com">zhakkab@gmail.com</a><br>
><br>
> Above is what we know about the hacker.<br>
<br>
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Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Valery Kholodkov<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Cheers,</font><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Rami</font></div><br>
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