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Re: Akamai
From: Darren Reed <avalon () caligula anu edu au>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:53:23 +1000 (Australia/ACT)
"Young called it a "large scale, international attack on Internet infrastructure." However, there was no evidence that non-Akamai infrastructure was affected." http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040615/D837KIU00.html Regards, Brent
I curious to know if organised crime was involved or was it some rogue hacker/group or just a technical glitch? Reports say the attacked stopped after ~2 hours but why? Someone must have "called it off" but in response to what? If so, was it just a demonstration of "power" or something else? After reading about extortion attempts by various groups that use DoS tactics to impact web sales, clearly the nature of all DoS attacks against large sites must be looked at in more depth to get a good picture of what is happening. This is a whole new play ground for organised crime, mostly thanks to Microsoft. You've got millions of PC's around the world that are largely, in one way or another, susceptible to computer virii, making them open targets for use as minions. And the perfect seed for spreading them is the databases of email addresses used by spammers... What's interesting is that in contrast to old-school protection rackets, there appears to be no offering of protection from attack by others. Darren _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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