Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks?

alphadogg writes "As the distributed denial-of-service attacks spawned by this week's WikiLeaks events continue, network operators are discussing what progress, if any, has been made over the past decade to detect and thwart DoS attacks. Participants in the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) e-mail reflector are debating whether any headway has been made heading off DDoS attacks in 10 years. The discussion is occurring while WikiLeaks deals with DDoS attacks after leaking sensitive government information, and sympathizers launch attacks against MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and other significant e-commerce sites."

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Re:How could they not progress against a known thr

[Firewing1]

According to the Anonymous press release two days ago, they never launched an attack against Amazon:

After this piece of news circulated, parts of Anonymous on Twitter asked for Amazon.com to betargetted. The attack never occured.

After the attack was so advertised in the media, we felt that it would affect people such as consumers in a negative way and make them feel threatened by Anonymous. Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones, would be in bad taste.

Why are DDoS attacks hard to avoid anyway?

[Musically_ut]

If you are curious about the slightly deeper and murkier details, this will tell you why handling DDoS attacks is still difficult.