Archive for May, 2007

ddos de da: Internet attacks still considerable

May 25, 2007 by Danny McPherson

Here at Arbor we’re working with many of our service provider partners on trying to qualify and quantify denial of service attacks and other network threats. Here are a few data points relative to DDoS attacks we’ve observed over the past 255 days of data collection:

255 days of data collection
39 ISPs participation average
~1 Tbps of […]

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DDoS & Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report

May 25, 2007 by Danny McPherson

As a result of yet another query regarding the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report XI and subsequent comment, particularly here, I finally got around to reading some of the actual report. While the report is chock-full of interesting facts and figures, and lots & lots of graphs and charts, my chief curiosity was […]

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Estonian DDoS Attacks - A summary to date

May 17, 2007 by Jose Nazario

Time sure flies. I looked up from working and noticed I hadn’t blogged in a while. And I noticed that I hadn’t been analyzing the Estonian DDoS attacks in a week or two.
ATLAS gives us an amazing view into the Internet’s activities. ATLAS collects DoS attack data from around the world through sharing arrangements and […]

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How Botnets Are Lo-bot-omizing Your PC

May 11, 2007 by Arbor Networks

In this eWEEK OnSecurity podcast, Lisa Vaas gets Arbor Networks Chief Research Officer Danny McPherson on the line to talk about botnets, botconomics, how malware rips through security defenses and how to layer security for protection.

 
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Operationalizing Security

May 10, 2007 by Douglas Fleming

I have been spending a lot of time trying to understand the best ways to plan, build and augment security operations. From operations policy to staffing to procedures to best practices, I am always wondering what the best way(s) are to maintain and operationalize security expertise.
From the Service Provider community we are seeing a few […]

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