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Akamai Kicked Journalist Brian Krebs' Site Off Its Servers After He Was Hit By a Record Cyberattack (businessinsider.com)

Posted by msmash on from the pushing-the-limits dept.

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.

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  1. Akami folded, Kerbs is down by sinij · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re: Akami folded, Kerbs is down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It's more than likely that BackConnect has DDoS'ers on staff...a quick look at their employees and their past guarantees it.

      The ultimate business model! DDoS a site, then come to them saying you'll help.

  2. This is what happens. . . by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  3. This was one hell of an attack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?