Comments on: The Other Attacks Last Thursday

By: Support Wars » Denial-Of-Service Attacks Hard To Kill

Support Wars » Denial-Of-Service Attacks Hard To Kill — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:42:34 +0000

[...] one, according to Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Arbor Networks, who has been tracking the recent trends in DDoS attacks. The 30-Gbps DDoS was unusually potent; most attacks average [...]

By: Craig Labovitz

Craig Labovitz — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:43:12 +0000

The graph label is incorrect — it should read Gbps.

By: Damian Menscher

Damian Menscher — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:39:04 +0000

The graph label is Gpps but you seem to be interpreting it as Gbps. Which is it?

By: Arturo Servin

Arturo Servin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:57:47 +0000

“Since each individual ISP in a well-distributed DDoS attack may originate relatively little traffic (i.e. the attack does not impact their infrastructure, many providers only focus detection on inbound attacks (i.e. when the attack does impact their customers or infrastructure).”

It is a shame that they do not filter outbound traffic. Filter hundreds of outbound little attacks would reduce significant the impact to the target. Unfortunately I think that the effort is not yet “cost-sensitive” for single ISPs, although for the whole benefit of the Internet ecosystem it would be.

By: stacksmash.org » More journalism FAIL

stacksmash.org » More journalism FAIL — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:11:01 +0000

[...] facts and data, you can predict a relatively small DoS at any time and be right. For example, Arbor Networks shows that a ton of similar attacks happened… at the exact same time as the Twitter attack. In fact, they were all dwarfed by a massive [...]