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Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second
An anonymous reader writes "The NYT is reporting that the Largest DDoS in history reached 300 Gbps. The dispute started when the spam-fighting group Spamhaus added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam. Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in services like Netflix or could not reach a particular Web site for a short time. Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force but failed to do so. The attacks were first mentioned publicly last week by Cloudflare, an Internet security firm in Silicon Valley that was trying to defend against the attacks and as a result became a target."
“These things are essentially like nuclear bombs,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “It’s so easy to cause so much damage.”
relax dude, its just spam, not nuclear warfare. shut the computer off and go outside for a couple of hours.
With an operator no doubt facilitating illegal actions of their customers, and refusing to no doubt enfore court orders to disconnect their customers for said actions, couldn't a case be made to disconnect them from THEIR upstream providers because they are now acting illegally but not following court orders, presuming that their upstream providers follow court orders, and the upstream upstream until you get to a legitimate entity. It seems quite an shortcoming of the law that they can act with impunity while allowing their customers to bring down the very fabric of the world wide web.
IF its a DDOS, then losing control of the stupid little robots will not make it stop, they will just be unstoppable. If you want to prevent DDOS, then you need to force ISPs to perform egress filtering of source addresses that are outside of their network. And also implement a choke protocol to inform the ISPs that they have a bad actor on their network.
Too spammy, too many words, blacklist twice: The dispute started when the spam-fighting group Spamhaus added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its e-mail blacklist.
Removing words is like removing lines of code. Almost always makes it better.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I don't know..I'm not a combat engineer, but I don't think any bunker can last long if determined professionals are allowed to freely operate outside it. "nuclear bunker" means certain things about tolerance to over pressure, shock, contaminated air, etc., but doesn't do all that much against people with jackhammers and drills. The wikipedia page says the cyberbunker has 5 meter thick reinforced concrete walls, which would probably keep you and me out, but I'm sure can be defeated in time with civil engineering equipment. Beyond that, if you've got guys who know what they're doing poking around outside the bunker, there's whole worlds of things they can do.
These Danish cyberbunker people seem to share a mindset with the U.S. Ruby Ridge crowd, and they're both wrong. Making yourself an immobile target and defying state power in a developed nation really only has two outcomes: either you're not enough of a nuisance to provoke action, or you get crushed.
SI unit prefixes are readily available anytime you need them.
-femtobyte