[191623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Sep 23 20:50:28 2016
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From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:30:57 -0700
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On 9/23/16 10:58, Grant Ridder wrote:
> Didn't realize Akamai kicked out or disabled customers
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/krebs-on-security-booted-off-akamai-network-after-ddos-attack-proves-pricey/
>
> "Security blog Krebs on Security has been taken offline by host Akamai
> Technologies following a DDoS attack which reached 665 Gbps in size."
So ultimately the DDoS was successful, just in a different way.
~Seth