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[FlonkNews] Largest DDoS Attack Ever Launched Against Anti-Spam Site
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mimus
Mar 27, 2013, 11:03:28 AM3/27/13
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A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that
hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the
largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread
congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.
Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in
services like Netflix or could not reach a particular Web site for a
short time.
However, for the Internet engineers who run the global network the
problem is more worrisome. The attacks are becoming increasingly
powerful, and computer security experts worry that if they continue to
escalate people may not be able to reach basic Internet services, like
e-mail and online banking.
The dispute started when the spam-fighting group, called Spamhaus,
added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by
e-mail providers to weed out spam. Cyberbunker, named for its
headquarters, a five-story former NATO bunker, offers hosting services
to any Web site “except child porn and anything related to terrorism,”
according to its Web site.
A spokesman for Spamhaus, which is based in Europe, said the attacks
began on March 19, but had not stopped the group from distributing its
blacklist.
Patrick Gilmore, chief architect at Akamai Networks, a digital content
provider, said Spamhaus’s role was to generate a list of Internet
spammers.
Of Cyberbunker, he added: “These guys are just mad. To be frank, they
got caught. They think they should be allowed to spam.”
Mr. Gilmore said that the attacks, which are generated by swarms of
computers called botnets, concentrate data streams that are larger
than the Internet connections of entire countries. He likened the
technique, which uses a long-known flaw in the Internet’s basic
plumbing, to using a machine gun to spray an entire crowd when the
intent is to kill one person.
The attacks were first mentioned publicly last week by CloudFlare, an
Internet security firm in Silicon Valley that was trying to defend
against the attacks and as a result became a target.
“These things are essentially like nuclear bombs,” said Matthew
Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “It’s so easy to cause so much
damage.”
The so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks have
reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a data stream of 300
billion bits per second.
“It is a real number,” Mr. Gilmore said. “It is the largest publicly
announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet" . . . :
http://nyti.ms/11K2gee
Usenet servers were buckling before server-buckling was cool.
--
And that was HAND-CRAFTED flooding,
by cracky!
hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the
largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread
congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.
Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in
services like Netflix or could not reach a particular Web site for a
short time.
However, for the Internet engineers who run the global network the
problem is more worrisome. The attacks are becoming increasingly
powerful, and computer security experts worry that if they continue to
escalate people may not be able to reach basic Internet services, like
e-mail and online banking.
The dispute started when the spam-fighting group, called Spamhaus,
added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by
e-mail providers to weed out spam. Cyberbunker, named for its
headquarters, a five-story former NATO bunker, offers hosting services
to any Web site “except child porn and anything related to terrorism,”
according to its Web site.
A spokesman for Spamhaus, which is based in Europe, said the attacks
began on March 19, but had not stopped the group from distributing its
blacklist.
Patrick Gilmore, chief architect at Akamai Networks, a digital content
provider, said Spamhaus’s role was to generate a list of Internet
spammers.
Of Cyberbunker, he added: “These guys are just mad. To be frank, they
got caught. They think they should be allowed to spam.”
Mr. Gilmore said that the attacks, which are generated by swarms of
computers called botnets, concentrate data streams that are larger
than the Internet connections of entire countries. He likened the
technique, which uses a long-known flaw in the Internet’s basic
plumbing, to using a machine gun to spray an entire crowd when the
intent is to kill one person.
The attacks were first mentioned publicly last week by CloudFlare, an
Internet security firm in Silicon Valley that was trying to defend
against the attacks and as a result became a target.
“These things are essentially like nuclear bombs,” said Matthew
Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “It’s so easy to cause so much
damage.”
The so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks have
reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a data stream of 300
billion bits per second.
“It is a real number,” Mr. Gilmore said. “It is the largest publicly
announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet" . . . :
http://nyti.ms/11K2gee
Usenet servers were buckling before server-buckling was cool.
--
And that was HAND-CRAFTED flooding,
by cracky!
vinny
Mar 27, 2013, 6:51:43 PM3/27/13
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"mimus" <mim...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ad98a158-04ec-430b...@l9g2000yqp.googlegroups.com...
A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that
hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the
largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread
congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.
Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in
services like Netflix or could not reach a particular Web site for a
short time.
However, for the Internet engineers who run the global network the
problem is more worrisome. The attacks are becoming increasingly
powerful, and computer security experts worry that if they continue to
escalate people may not be able to reach basic Internet services, like
e-mail and online banking.
The dispute started when the spam-fighting group, called Spamhaus,
added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by
e-mail providers to weed out spam. Cyberbunker, named for its
headquarters, a five-story former NATO bunker, offers hosting services
to any Web site �except child porn and anything related to terrorism,�
hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the
largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread
congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.
Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in
services like Netflix or could not reach a particular Web site for a
short time.
However, for the Internet engineers who run the global network the
problem is more worrisome. The attacks are becoming increasingly
powerful, and computer security experts worry that if they continue to
escalate people may not be able to reach basic Internet services, like
e-mail and online banking.
The dispute started when the spam-fighting group, called Spamhaus,
added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by
e-mail providers to weed out spam. Cyberbunker, named for its
headquarters, a five-story former NATO bunker, offers hosting services
according to its Web site.
A spokesman for Spamhaus, which is based in Europe, said the attacks
began on March 19, but had not stopped the group from distributing its
blacklist.
Patrick Gilmore, chief architect at Akamai Networks, a digital content
provider, said Spamhaus�s role was to generate a list of Internet
A spokesman for Spamhaus, which is based in Europe, said the attacks
began on March 19, but had not stopped the group from distributing its
blacklist.
Patrick Gilmore, chief architect at Akamai Networks, a digital content
spammers.
Of Cyberbunker, he added: �These guys are just mad. To be frank, they
got caught. They think they should be allowed to spam.�
Mr. Gilmore said that the attacks, which are generated by swarms of
computers called botnets, concentrate data streams that are larger
than the Internet connections of entire countries. He likened the
plumbing, to using a machine gun to spray an entire crowd when the
intent is to kill one person.
The attacks were first mentioned publicly last week by CloudFlare, an
Internet security firm in Silicon Valley that was trying to defend
against the attacks and as a result became a target.
�These things are essentially like nuclear bombs,� said Matthew
intent is to kill one person.
The attacks were first mentioned publicly last week by CloudFlare, an
Internet security firm in Silicon Valley that was trying to defend
against the attacks and as a result became a target.
Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. �It�s so easy to cause so much
damage.�
The so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks have
reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a data stream of 300
billion bits per second.
announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet" . . . :
http://nyti.ms/11K2gee
Usenet servers were buckling before server-buckling was cool.
**********
http://nyti.ms/11K2gee
Usenet servers were buckling before server-buckling was cool.
Who friggen cares.
They are simply hogging bandwidth, the lamest of all attacks.
Big deal, up against dynamic firewalls its so short lived it is nothing more
than inconvienince after inconvienince. They simply can't maintain it long
enough to do anybody any real harm.
Netflix seems like a mom and pop operation from a network point of view.
They have prolly overgrown their own network a year ago.
It's all hype.
FrozenNorth
Mar 27, 2013, 7:28:06 PM3/27/13
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On 3/27/2013 6:51 PM, vinny wrote:
>
> "mimus" <mim...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ad98a158-04ec-430b...@l9g2000yqp.googlegroups.com...
>
> "mimus" <mim...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ad98a158-04ec-430b...@l9g2000yqp.googlegroups.com...
ounced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet" . . . :
>
> http://nyti.ms/11K2gee
>
> Usenet servers were buckling before server-buckling was cool.
>
> **********
> Who friggen cares.
> They are simply hogging bandwidth, the lamest of all attacks.
> Big deal, up against dynamic firewalls its so short lived it is nothing
> more than inconvienince after inconvienince. They simply can't maintain
> it long enough to do anybody any real harm.
> Netflix seems like a mom and pop operation from a network point of view.
> They have prolly overgrown their own network a year ago.
> It's all hype.
It is a bit more than that Vinny, have a read:
>
> http://nyti.ms/11K2gee
>
> Usenet servers were buckling before server-buckling was cool.
>
> **********
> Who friggen cares.
> They are simply hogging bandwidth, the lamest of all attacks.
> Big deal, up against dynamic firewalls its so short lived it is nothing
> more than inconvienince after inconvienince. They simply can't maintain
> it long enough to do anybody any real harm.
> Netflix seems like a mom and pop operation from a network point of view.
> They have prolly overgrown their own network a year ago.
> It's all hype.
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet
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