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DDoS Attacks Exceed 100 Gbps For First Time
wiredmikey writes "The Sixth Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, released today by Arbor Networks, revealed that DDoS attack size broke 100 Gbps for first time; up 1000% since 2005. In addition to hitting the 100 Gbps attack barrier for the first time, application layer attacks hit an all-time high. Additionally, it goes on to show that as new equipment, protocols and services are introduced into networks, the vulnerable attack surface for DDoS is expanded. DDoS attacks are likely to continue as a low cost, high-profile form of cyber-protest in 2011 and beyond."
You're not going to see a high-profile act of protest which has the explicit approval and blessing of the authorities.
Civil disobedience involves disobedience.
Could we please agree that 100 Gbps, especially in this context, is not a "barrier"? At best, it is a mildly interesting milestone in the march towards completely saturating the internet with crap. But it is not a barrier in the sense that there was some physical limitation that held us up on our way past it. True, it happens to match the rated throughput of a particular class of network routing equipment, but so what? The sound barrier was an actual barrier in airspeed, one which many objects and phenomena cannot overcome, and one that took extra effort to get humans past. A brick wall is a barrier to your forward progress that requires extra effort to push through (if you're into that kind of thing). But 100 Gbps is no more a barrier than 99 Gbps was or 101 Gbps will be. Round numbers are not barriers - they're just human conventions.