[123782] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OBESEUS - A new type of DDOS protector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Mar 15 22:03:19 2010
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:32:48 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Guillaume FORTAINE <gfortaine@live.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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That's right M.Fortaine .. and your model does not, as yet, appear to
address what you term as EDoS and what the general security community
calls "DDoS"
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Guillaume FORTAINE <gfortaine@live.com> wr=
ote:
> From my point of view, it seems similar to the EDoS concept :
>
> http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/?s=3DEDos
>
> "EDoS attacks, however, are death by a thousand cuts. EDoS can also utili=
ze
> distributed attack sources as well as single entities, but works by makin=
g
> legitimate web requests at volumes that may appear to be =E2=80=9Cnormal=
=E2=80=9D but are
> done so to drive compute, network, and storage utility billings in a clou=
d
> model abnormally high."
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
