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Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog () vaxination ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:32:31 -0400
Question: For something like Mirai and others, there appears to be a timer that starts the attack at a certain day/time (with unknown amount of time to distribute the software to any/all infectable devices prior to attack). Do these generally have a timer to also stop the attack and go dormant awaiting instructions from its master ? or do they continue to send those packets forever ? If the attack is made using perfectly formed, legitimate DNS packlets (or HTTP requests or whetever), can temporary mitigation measures continue forever even if they block legitimate requests ? Or is it general practioce for hackers to have short duration attacks to reduce the time available to track them down ? (similar to old movies where one had to hangup before the 2 minutes it took for police to trace a phone call).
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- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11, (continued)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 bzs (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 John Weekes (Oct 22)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Stephen Satchell (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 David Conrad (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Stephen Satchell (Oct 23)
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- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Larry Sheldon (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 John Weekes (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Richard Holbo (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 23)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Josh Reynolds (Oct 24)
- RE: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Emille Blanc (Oct 24)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 25)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 bzs (Oct 25)
- Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11 Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Oct 24)
- Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 24)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Jared Mauch (Oct 24)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Matthias Waehlisch (Oct 24)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Jared Mauch (Oct 25)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 25)