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 [...]

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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 in all [...]

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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 [...]

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