Looks like there's some 'fighting' going on
Interesting article. What I got from it is that spam fighting company wasn't wise giving such remarks and not expecting retaliation. If they had only kept their mouths shut.
Interesting that they can muster 300gbps. Maybe if every internet connected house in America (less Kansas City) were taking part, they could make it to 301
follow-up says no go slow
http://gizmodo.com/5992652/that-internet-war-apocalypse-is-a-lie
favorite part
But once you read beyond a few scary sentences of CYBERWEBATTACKS, you might wonder:
- Why wasn't my internet slow?
- Why didn't anyone notice this over the course of the past week, when it began?
- Why isn't anyone without a financial stake in the attack saying the attack was this much of a disaster?
- Why haven't there been any reports of Netflix outages, as the New York Times and BBC reported?
- Why do firms that do nothing but monitor the health of the web, like Internet Traffic Report, show zero evidence of this Dutch conflict spilling over into our online backyards?
follow-up says no go slow
So it was as real as the "zombie apocalypse" they'd all like us to believe "will happen."
My take on this story is that this is a retaliation/revenge for the EU giving the savers on Cyprus a "haircut" of 25% (or more). And it seems the bulk of those "savers" were criminals from Eastern Europe and/or Russia who thought that their "savings" were safe in Cyprus.
And those "savers" have used Cyrpus to launder money, to "fleece" the russian tax authorities. to avoid paying taxes in Russia.
Interesting write-up by CloudFlare
Interesting write up Alan. It did happen and I guess we'll see more of these denial of service attacks in the future. Security type forums and websites are often a target.
First time I ever heard of what a DOS attack was probably thirteen or so years ago on the Gibson Research website, back when he was informing people to start using anti-spyware and a software firewall.