[133310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jed Smith)
Wed Dec 8 11:31:03 2010
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1012060238030.19542@clifden.donelan.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:29:17 -0500
From: Jed Smith <jed@jedsmith.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> What progress has been made during the last decade at stopping DDOS
> attacks?
>
Observing Mastercard today, apparently none.
Can't blame stupid users or Microsoft for this one, either. The 'attackers'
are
using a .NET tool which I'm sure all of us are familiar with, LOIC. It
voluntarily (with user's consent!) adds their machine to a botnet controlle=
d
by
somebody from 4chan over IRC. Because that can end well.
Blaming Microsoft for DoS attacks and spam is so pass=C3=A9. These mouthbre=
athers
are
the bigger threat, I think.
J
