It seems that the latest target of the “DDoS as a political statement” movement may be Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. News about the attacks has surfaced online, including this source: RFE/RL Websites Hit By Mass Cyberattack, via the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website
The attack, which started on April 26, initially targeted the website of RFE/RL’s [...]
In his written statement to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Tuesday of this week, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin referred to a particular method of traffic management as a “blunt means to reduce peer-to-peer traffic by blocking certain traffic completely.”
The blunt means was referring to how some Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) platforms [...]
As I noted last night, another, third tool (that I know of) dedicated for Chinese who are upset and want to attack CNN has been released. The folks at Hackeroo have released a Netbot Attacker Anti-CNN version, free of charge, for folks to use. Normally Netbot Attacker is a commercial tool, but this is a [...]
A new DDoS tool to be used in the China vs CNN attacks has surfaced (thanks for the tip!) has been released. This one is more flexible than the first, it lets you specify what targets you want to hit, indicating more flexible attacks in the near future may be afoot. But first, a quick [...]
Once again I find myself thinking about the nature of the asymmetric warfare threat posed by politically motivated DDoS (Estonia in 07, Korea in 02, and now China vs CNN in 08). I keep thinking about it in terms of asymmetric warfare, a class of warfare where one side is a traditional, centrally managed military [...]
