Arbor Networks: Security to the Core

[...] Updated (May-18): The Arbor Networks blog (”Security to the Core”) has some information about the targets of the attacks and other quantitative data. [...]

[...] Cory Doctorow: Russia is accused of being the first country to declare cyber-war on another nation: the ongoing Estonian conflict has been accompanied by a massive DDoS attack on critical Estonian networks: [...]

[...] Estonian DDoS Attacks – A summary to date – Good analysis of the issues that Estonia was facing. Largest attacks we measured: 10 attacks measured at 90 Mbps, lasting upwards of 10 hours. All in all, someone is very, very deliberate in putting the hurt on Estonia, and this kind of thing is only going to get more severe in the coming years. [...]

[...] Cory Doctorow: Russia is accused of being the first country to declare cyber-war on another nation: the ongoing Estonian conflict has been accompanied by a massive DDoS attack on critical Estonian networks: [...]

[...] This morning I wrote about the blistering cyberattacks against the Baltic nation of Estonia in recent weeks. We’ve since come across an interesting blog posting from Jose Nazario over at Arbor Networks offering more detail on the size and scope of the attacks. [...]

[...] “GLi attacchi sono stati massicci, ben indirizzati e ben organizzati”, ha detto il ministro della difesa estone Jaak Aaviksoo: il governo accusa Mosca di aver deciso e diretto l’assalto, sostenendo di aver identificato i responsabili e sottolineando come le autorità russe si siano rifiutate di collaborare. Le ramificazioni arriverebbero fino agli uffici presidenziali, a cui apparterrebbero alcuni degli indirizzi IP che avrebbero partecipato all’attacco. [...]

[...] Arbor Networks’ Jose Nazario has now blogged his initial analysis of the event. He reports that Arbor Networks recorded 128 unique DDoS attacks on Estonian-based URLs. Most lasted less than one hour, with the longest lasting 10 hours and thirty minutes. As for the strength, measured in how many packets of information flooded the given URL to make it inaccessible, the attacks were relatively light, with only ten of the attacks measuring 90-plus Mbps, including one of the 10 hour attacks. At its peak on May 9, the attack shut down up to 58 sites at once. [...]

[...] Eesti vastu korraldati rohkelt rünnakuid ja see on parim Venemaa valitsust rünnakutega siduv asitõend? What the fuck? [...]

[...] If you want to see what types of attacks are being conducted, check out this dashboard developed by Arbor Networks, called Atlas, for a daily summary. And here’s a blog post by Arbor’s Jose Nazario, a security researcher, describing some details of the attacks on Estonia. [...]

[...] 2. In May 2007, Estonian government agencies and online companies were DDoSed in a massive politcally motivated attack from all around the Globe. At least one Estonian bank shut off access to their site from networks outside the country. Russia was blamed for many of the attacks. Now Estonia is < a href=”http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL0671620620070606″>asking the Russian government for help to find the cyber-criminals. [...]

Hi collegues,

I try to understand the speculation on DDoS on Esstonia and found-out the subj. a bit crazy.

First …. can you possibly let us now, was any legal estonian defenitions for DDoS-attack or it was illegal speculation of security-minded-fricks and gov. pr-managers?

If I”l take wikipedia term, “”is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users” – it means for me, if anybody from another country access the web site on another lang. – he became guilty, if web hoster whant this. Stupid!

Second
It’s nice to see matrix bandwith–destination. For example – how much traffic have been sent to gov. resources. I founded in google, they have only 4 Mbit link to Internet. May they can afford more in 21 centuary, to assure that people will be provided with information ?

[...] “The data that we have does not speak to who’s behind it. There’s no smoking gun,” said Jose Nazario, senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, who has studied the attacks. [...]

[...] colleague Chris Diehl at JHU APL suggested the Estonian cyberwar might be a good example to study how the Blogosphere was used for this by combining sentiment [...]

[...] no smoking gun,” said Jose Nazario, senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, who has studied the [...]

[...] It is also possible that such a widget could directly declare its purpose. During the recent Estonian and Georgian DDoS event, a simple script was circulated that allowed the average citizen to participate in the DDoS attack. [...]

[...] the part of ISPs, and, potentially, governments, considering the magnitude of attacks suffered by Estonia in 2007, as well as China’s and North Korea’s burgeoning military / government-sponsored [...]

[...] warfare (IW) so far happened 2 years ago during the conflict between Estonia and Russia (details here) and in Georgia in 2008 (the apparent cooperation of Russian government with the perpetrators led [...]