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Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose?
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:41:44 -0500
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 09:58:01AM -0500, Tom Beecher wrote:
Questionable cloud / VPS / hosting companies are great for spammers and botnet C&C, but not so great for DDoS "ion cannons". You still need a large volume of geographically diverse endpoints for those to be effective.
To piggyback on this: when launching a DDoS, diversity along multiple axes is helpful: geography, topology, connectivity, operating system, etc. Each additional form of diversity slightly raises the bar for defenders. Also, every compromised device may be a source of useful/saleable data, or the gateway to more of the same or to more valuable targets or to the compromise of people. The IoT is particularly fertile ground for this because to a very good first approximation, "IoT security" is an oxymoron. --rsk
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- "Hacking" these days - purpose? Peter E . Fry (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Tom Beecher (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Rich Kulawiec (Dec 14)
- RE: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Ryland Kremeier (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? James R Cutler (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Laszlo Hanyecz (Dec 14)
- RE: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Ryland Kremeier (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Mark Tinka (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? David Bass (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Mark Tinka (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Laszlo Hanyecz (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Mark Tinka (Dec 14)
- RE: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Ryland Kremeier (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Miles Fidelman (Dec 14)
- Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose? Tom Beecher (Dec 14)