DDoS Packets are Two Percent of Net Traffic, Report Says
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 20:07
By Ryan Singel April 02, 2008 | 3:26:22 PM
One out of every 50 packets on the internet is malicious junk intended simply to clog the tubes, according to a high level traffic analysis by Arbor Networks.
Distributed Denial of Service attacks or DDoSes aim to bring a site down by bombarding it with fake requests for a web page or image. It's like having 1,000 people continually crank calling a company -- the real customers can't get through.
June 21st, the NOC was jarred into action. Two minutes earlier, if not by chance, discussions focused around on how well traffic flowed so calmly within our Network. Its as if the Internet pirates, bots, and trojans and the Gods of War themselves had finally reached the end of their reign. Peace among us all, finally allowing us fleshies (yes I'm talking about you) ... the pleasure to carry out our endeavors; searching, googling, and torrenting, our daily porn....um I mean, gaming, ebaying, blogging, chatting, and all of our other *@%!-ing needs.
Collateral Damage: How your website can be brought down by a Denial of Service attack without being the target
Written by Christoph
Saturday, 28 June 2008 14:43
Many companies with internet presences do not think seriously about being brought down by a denial of service attack. However, you don't need to be a controversial blogger, or the internet version of a gang member to be subject to a DoS attack. Sometimes, you don't even need to be the intended target of an attack to be affected. Think of it as the internet equivalent of a drive by shooting. This can cause severe financial, as well as one's reputation, and other long lasting effects to your business' online presence.
Asia is seeing rapid rise of internet users at over 30% a year, and it is among the fastest rate of growth anywhere in the world. But growing even faster are the numbers of cybercrimes in the region. According to security experts, internet crime in Asia have already jumped 65% so far this year, as Mariko Oi reports.
A hacker at work, 28-year old Fabrice Marie makes a living by breaking into networks. He targets banks, multinationals, and even governments, but he is not a criminal. Fabrice Marie: "If we are recruited to hack into the networks, the idea is after they implemented the changes that we proposed, hackers of the same level like us won't be able to penetrate (the networks) anymore."
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How CloudNine Wound Up in Hell
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Friday, 09 May 2008 22:12
LONDON -- Fears are growing once more that companies operating on the Internet may not be equipped to ward off electronic sabotage after hackers forced a small British firm out of business. CloudNine Communications, one of Britain's oldest ISPs, shut down last week with the loss of eight jobs in what computer experts believe is the first instance of a company being hacked out of existence.
If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack. Using rented botnets, you can launch hundreds of thousands - even millions - of infobombs at a target, all while maintaining total deniability. In this hypothetical scenario, a single attack launched by China against the US lasts only a few hours, but a full-scale assault lasting days or weeks could bring an entire modern information economy to its knees.
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
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Friday, 09 May 2008 22:06
The minister of defense checked the Web page again - still nothing. He stared at the error message: For some reason, the site for Estonia's leading newspaper, the Postimees, wasn't responding. Jaak Aaviksoo attempted to pull up the sites of a couple of other papers. They were all down. The former director of the University of Tartu Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology d been the Estonian defense minister for only four weeks. He hadn't even changed the art on the walls.
An Ohio computer hacker who served as a digital button man for a shady internet hosting company faces prison time after admitting he carried out one of a series of crippling denial-of-service attacks ordered by a wealthy businessman against his competitors.
The organization that usually warns others when hackers and crackers are at work is under attack itself.
* MORE SCIENCE NEWS from: cbc.ca/science
The Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT, has been fighting to keep its Web site online in the face of a denial-of-service attack.
Since Tuesday, the site has been bombarded by a flood of bogus data requests. The FBI says these types of attacks will likely become more common. A recent study found more than 4,000 a week are being launched.
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