Re: Mitigating HTTP DDoS attacks?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:13:25 -0400
"Rodrick Brown" <rodrick.brown () gmail com> wrote:

> They're a few companies that specialize in "DDOS protection type
> services" one company that comes to mind is Prolexic and their  IPN
> infrastructure protection service. Prolexic will basically absorbs all
> attacks filter out the bad data and then deliver clean traffic back to
> your network. Its completly transparent to you're clients. Its not
> cheap but i've worked with a few internet based trading companies who
> used this service to litigate DDOS attacks on their network
> infrastructure.
Prolexic was indicted about 1.5 years ago for aiding gambling sites:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/15/HNnyillegalonlinegambling_1.html
http://www.firstamendment.com/media/NYQCIndictment.pdf

Does anyone know if the indictment has been dropped?  (It should be.)
A quick poke around their site didn't show any news items saying that.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb