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Since it's a Dutch company I highly doubt they host anything illegal (as the article implies). The same rules apply to them as they do to other hosting companies in The Netherlands (and EU).
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onafhankelijke_Post_en_Telecomm...
"These attacks are peaking at 300 gb/s (gigabits per second). Is that around like 3000 compromised computers? Maybe 2-5 botnets worth? I might be a bit off on the prices here, but that sound like maybe ~$1k/day on the market? would be nice to get a price tag on the "'biggest attack in history'".
3000 computers means each one is putting out a full 100Mb/s, which unless those 3000 computers are in data centers seems unlikely. Seems like 30,000 nodes at 10Mb/s would be more likely? But I don't have experience in botnets, just curious.
Funny story from the Hosting company[1]: "Before the break of dawn on a morning in April, a full SWAT team was sent to execute a search warrant on CyberBunker's property." "It must not have occurred to the officers that the blast doors were designed to withstand a 20 megaton nuclear explosion from close range. When the SWAT team realized that the door was not being opened for them, they throw flashbangs and take othe…
Also, not everybody seems to love Spamhaus, which is largely overlooked in the articles.
Missing in this is who is attacking Spamhaus and why -- what is motivating the attackers to risk eventual detection or capture. Also, it seems implied but not stated, are all of the attacks originating from leased servers in Spamhaus???
I understand taking pride in your work but isn't bragging like this kind of an invitation for more things like this to happen to Spamhaus?
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I agree, the problem however is that threats are constantly evolving and getting more complicated. Even most IT people don't understand the threats properly (I know I struggle). It used to be that could just tell people to install a security suite on their computer and they'd be mostly OK. I don't think that's really true any longer. You could also partly lay the blame at Microsoft's door in getting users to start co…
If she has Microsoft Security Essentials installed, doesn't run unknown software, and doesn't give out her password, what more could my mother, as a layman, reasonably be expected to do? I understand there are all sorts of complicated steps she could take if she had good intuition about sniffing out bad guys, but she doesn't. Isn't the problem with the crappy software, not her?
Even a sophisticated user is just as vulnerable in many cases. If I give personal information to a third party site that I presume to be trustworthy (say a government site) there's no way I can know if someone is going to find SQLi vulnerabilities in that site next week and exfiltrate all of that data.
Funny story from the Hosting company[1]: "Before the break of dawn on a morning in April, a full SWAT team was sent to execute a search warrant on CyberBunker's property." "It must not have occurred to the officers that the blast doors were designed to withstand a 20 megaton nuclear explosion from close range. When the SWAT team realized that the door was not being opened for them, they throw flashbangs and take othe…
Exactly why is this affecting non-spamhaus services? Is it just shared dns servers or actual IP traffic being throttled ?
I'm not sure to understand why this should slow down the whole internet. It seems to be only for email filtering, not for the web, and only those ISP that use their service should be impacted, and only when their DNS cache is not triggered. Am I missing something ?
Funny story from the Hosting company[1]: "Before the break of dawn on a morning in April, a full SWAT team was sent to execute a search warrant on CyberBunker's property." "It must not have occurred to the officers that the blast doors were designed to withstand a 20 megaton nuclear explosion from close range. When the SWAT team realized that the door was not being opened for them, they throw flashbangs and take othe…