RE: Akamai an Inside Job?

["Rodney Green" <rgreen () trayerproducts com>]

He did provide a link

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Subject: RE: Akamai an Inside Job?


David Kennedy CISSP wrote:

> The Akamai attacks started in the morning and it was detected by
  > Keynote Systems, a web tracking company that is able to track the 
load
> and bandwidth on the Internet. According to Keynote they saw
> an "Internet performance issue" this morning
> ...

  Here's a link to a Reuter's article with official quotes from Keynote 
Systems: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040615/tech_internet_1.html Keynote 
saw availability of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google drop to near-zero.

 I have no clue where David got the information that:
> They have tracked the attacker back to person that is at the Akamai
> Technologies ISP. No other information has been given to us at this
> time.

 That tidbit didn't come from Keynote. Can you provide a link, David?

  -DaveU