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40-Gbps DDoS Attacks Worry Even Tier-1 ISPs
sturgeon and other readers let us know that Arbor Networks has released their annual survey of tier-1 / tier-2 ISP security engineers. This year they got responses from 70 lead engineers. While DDoS attacks are reaching new heights of backbone-crushing traffic — 40 Gbps was seen this past year — the insiders are also worried about emerging threats to DNS and BGP. The summary notes that "Most believe that the DNS cache poisoning flaw disclosed earlier this year was poorly handled and increased the danger of the threat," but doesn't spell out what a better way of handling it might have been. All in all, the ISPs sound a bit pessimistic — one says "fewer resources, less management support, and increased workload." You can request the full PDF report here, but it will cost you contact information. In related news, an anonymous reader passes along a survey by Secure Computing of 199 international security experts and other "industry insiders" from utilities, oil and gas, financial services, government, telecommunications, transportation and other critical infrastructure industries. They are worried too.
nah we will just pay 700 billion to prop it up for a few months and let the next guy deal with it.
...the Jews.
Wasn't there something in the Book of Phlobroham about not trusting a 128-bit address space? I don't want to have to get circumcised just to get to the BBC website, goddammit.
Except the economy is fake and "they" pull this recession bullshit every ten years or so.
you got quotation marks, but no point. please elaborate.
Obviously the Anti-Illuminati. You'd think "they" meant Illuminati, which is why it has to be the Anti-Illuminati. Unless "they" knew you'd think that...
That could be a bit of a self-inflated problem considering the zombie bot armies. However I do agree we need to make the telcom industry feed us some heavy doses of fiber with all those extra funds we been giving them for decades for it and less on silicone for their mistresses, thereby making the "tubes" a bit more regular in the flow and less top heavy. It would help too if things were less centralized with traffic and more redundant as well. Wonder if the DHS is monitoring backhoes yet?
Where's my "-1, Epic Fail!" moderation option when I need it?
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Libertarian once shat on my carpet. Said the free market would sort it out.
Nuclear bombs even worry 1st world countries.
Most people aren't thought about after they're gone. "I wonder where Rob got the plutonium" is better than most get.
This is terrifying.
So terrifying, in fact, that I fully support the rebuilding of the entire Internet by pseudo-Democratic countries like the United States, and large businesses such as General Electric and Monsanto.
We have to stop these faceless Internet terrorists once and for all!
I didn't say I *wanted* to pay for it. I just said I thought it would be a better option than throwing money at AIG.
To be fair, using it to line the litterbox at my house is a better option than AIG.
And let SLIP the dogs of war.
Taggers, please quote correctly.