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Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Wed Dec 8 13:41:53 2010

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:41:35 +0000
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On Dec 9, 2010, at 1:34 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:

> There seems to be a trend of using larger-scale flooding, or other simple=
 types of attacks to get all the network people at an organization
> rushing over to throw resources and energy at it.

Concur, the more serious attackers use diversionary attacks or 'demonstrati=
ons' like this from time to time, absolutely.

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