MediaDefender denial of service attack on Internet television network Revision3

[Morrow Long <morrow.long () yale edu>]

MediaDefender (not MediaSentry) -- a company which has acted on behalf  
of media companies in movie, music and video game entertainment  
industries --
was apparently the perpetrator of a denial of service (DoS) attack on  
the Internet television network Revision3 (  http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8951 
 ) for
(purportedly) being a Bittorrent distributor (running a 'tracker'  
server in BT P2P parlance) though the content is (purportedly once  
again) perfectly legit.

MediaDefender has reportedly been seeding bogus audio, video and game  
program files into peer to peer networks such as Bittorrent to dilute  
their usefulness
(see URLs http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-emails-leaked-070915/  
and http://thepiratebay.org/blog/86 ) but has decided to move to more  
'direct action' against P2P network infrastructure recently (again  
purportedly) by performing denial of service attacks on P2P network  
servers.

MediaDefender has purportedly admitted the action and Revision3's CEO  
Jim Louderback's web posting claims the FBI is investigating
( http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3) 
.

H. Morrow Long, CISSP, CISM, CEH
University Information Security Officer
Director -  Information Security Office

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