Re: Akamai

[tcleary2 () csc com au]

Darren Reed said:

> What's interesting is that in contrast to old-school protection
> rackets, there appears to be no offering of protection from attack
> by others.

IIRC the main purpose of DoS attacks ( apart from kiddie fights )
is to allow a trust exploit/MITM to succeed - e.g. session hijacking.

Maybe someone wanted to plant something by pretending to be the
WindowsUpdate site?

If you're akamamai'd, poisoning DNS would be harder, but changing
IP address wouldn't seem unusual, would it?

Regards,

tom.

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