Full Disclosure: Re: Akamai

[Darren Reed <avalon () caligula anu edu au>]

> "Young called it a "large scale, international attack on Internet
> infrastructure." However, there was no evidence that non-Akamai
> infrastructure was affected."
>
> http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040615/D837KIU00.html
>
> Regards,
> Brent
I curious to know if organised crime was involved or was it
some rogue hacker/group or just a technical glitch?

Reports say the attacked stopped after ~2 hours but why?

Someone must have "called it off" but in response to what?

If so, was it just a demonstration of "power" or something else?

After reading about extortion attempts by various groups that use
DoS tactics to impact web sales, clearly the nature of all DoS
attacks against large sites must be looked at in more depth to
get a good picture of what is happening.

This is a whole new play ground for organised crime, mostly thanks
to Microsoft.  You've got millions of PC's around the world that
are largely, in one way or another, susceptible to computer virii,
making them open targets for use as minions.  And the perfect seed
for spreading them is the databases of email addresses used by
spammers...

What's interesting is that in contrast to old-school protection
rackets, there appears to be no offering of protection from attack
by others.

Darren

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