Pentagon Researchers Will Wage Counterattack on Crippling ‘DDoS’ Cyber Strikes

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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/08/pentagon-researchers-will-wage-counterattack-crippling-ddos-cyber-strikes/119192/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
August 17, 2015

The Pentagon has in mind a three-pronged counterattack against a 
decades-old form of cyber assault that continues to paralyze government 
and industry networks, despite its low cost of sometimes $10 a hit.

Beginning next spring, military-funded researchers are scheduled to 
produce new tools that would quickly enable organizations to bounce back 
from so-called distributed denial-of-service attacks.

A recovery rate of at most 10 seconds is the goal, according to the 
Defense Department.

Today, attackers have a relatively easy time aiming bogus traffic at 
computer servers to knock them offline. One reason is that computer 
systems often are consolidated, making for a wide target area. Another 
weakness is the predictable behavior of systems that support Web services. 
And finally, certain types of DDoS attacks that evince little malicious 
traffic go undetected.

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