[71509] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Akamai an Inside Job?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dunger-nanog1087@mailblocks.com)
Wed Jun 16 12:20:02 2004
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:19:32 -0700
From: <dunger-nanog1087@mailblocks.com>
In-Reply-To: <dunger-0UAusAWcqgUMNxPxfvxq0t4xDLpA/pK@mailblocks.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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David Kennedy CISSP wrote:
> The Akamai attacks started in the morning and it was detected by
> Keynote Systems, a web tracking company that is able to track the
load
> and bandwidth on the Internet. According to Keynote they saw
> an "Internet performance issue" this morning
> ...
Here's a link to a Reuter's article with official quotes from Keynote
Systems: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040615/tech_internet_1.html Keynote
saw availability of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google drop to near-zero.
I have no clue where David got the information that:
> They have tracked the attacker back to person that is at the Akamai
> Technologies ISP. No other information has been given to us at this
> time.
That tidbit didn't come from Keynote. Can you provide a link, David?
-DaveU
