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Akamai Kicked Journalist Brian Krebs' Site Off Its Servers After He Was Hit By a Record Cyberattack (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader writes:Cloud hosting giant Akamai Technologies has dumped journalist Brian Krebs from its servers after his website came under a "record" cyberattack. "It's looking likely that KrebsOnSecurity will be offline for a while," Krebs tweeted Thursday. "Akamai's kicking me off their network tonight." Since Tuesday, Krebs' site has been under sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), a crude method of flooding a website with traffic in order to deny legitimate users from being able to access it. The assault has flooded Krebs' site with more than 620 Gbps per second of traffic -- nearly double what Akamai has seen in the past.
From Kerbs on Security site:"The attack began around 8 p.m. ET on Sept. 20, and initial reports put it at approximately 665 Gigabits of traffic per second." .
Akami were handling it as of yesterday, but it seems that they decided it was too expensive to stand by their client while he is under attack.
Maybe a coincidence, but this started to happen after Kerbs exposed anti-DDoS 'protection' firm BackConnect use of BGP hijacking.
If blacklisting IPs used in DDOSs could be reliably automated, it wouldn't be a problem.
It's not that we don't understand it (frankly, people, who would act differently?), what is troublesome is the signal this broadcasts.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
when you're honest. Krebs doesn't pull his punches and the whiners of the world (i.e. those he lambasted for having low quality products or game play) don't like it and now they're being petulant two year olds.
Just goes to show the mentality of supposed adults. Especially the cowards who sit behind a keyboard and try to destroy the work of others because they didn't get their lollipop.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Akamai does not like Krebs exposing out the DDoS attackers, because fear of DDoS is what brings Akamai business. This is a good excuse to try to get rid of Krebs.
I have said it before, and I will say it again: Brian Krebs rocks.
You've obviously never seen an Akamai invoice...
From the right up on it, it was peaking at 665 gigabits/sec and was leveraging a massive botnet trying to make direct connections instead of using DNS reflection. They kept his site up during this and numerous other large scale attacks. Claiming that Akamai isn't a "bullet proof" host because they decided their support cost and impact to their customers outweighed the free-marketing/goodwill is just asinine. You're the same entitled person that uses free web services and then b*tches when they start charging or go under aren't you?
He should consider using a .bit address with Zeronet.
He should publish his site on Freenet. There's no such thing as a DDoS there, quite the opposite: the more requests there are for a specific URL, the more widely that content is propagated across the network, making it easier and faster for everyone to load. I say again, you cannot DDoS a Freenet site, there is no server to DDoS, as the content is distributed and hosted across the entire network. The only thing he'd lose is the comment section (Freenet's design is not conducive to interactive/dynamic stuff like commenting).