[73591] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Data about DDOS attacks? (was Re: FBI bust DDoS 'Mafia')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Aug 30 07:29:14 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0408300527450.19514@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:27:57 +0200
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 30-aug-04, at 11:29, Sean Donelan wrote:
>> This will scare them and will decrease the DDoS attacks from now and
>> on.
> Does anyone have any data whether DDOS attacks have increased or
> decreased?
I can tell you this much: several of my customers have been buying
additional / better hardware in order to be able to cope with denial of
service attacks.
As far as I can tell it has been getting worse over the past few years.
