Monday, August 31, 2009
ddos becoming more and more common
This is just one of many articles you see today on this subject. It seems to me that this is becoming more and more common to see rivals attacking each other using a ddos. From rival video game companies in china ( See ddos attacks in China ) to the shutting down of facebook and twitter a few weeks back due to some blog about russia. The key concept here is how do corporations protect themselves. I belive the only way to protect yourself from this is having a good security team on thier toes with a good IDS running and properly configured. This is something that will take entirely too much money for any small business to invest in. Any one else have any ideas on how to protect from DDOS?
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I wonder what kind of protection from DDOS the Chinese internet businesses were using. I searched on Twitter DDOS and found this blog,:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.blyon.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/06/twitter-down-due-to-ddos/
This is a detailed analysis of that attack, with logs.
What does it mean "they only had one Network Provider (NTT) which is rather insane these days"? The implication is that it was Twitter's fault.
there is a possibility that limiting the amount of traffic one user can generate (i.e. posts on facebook etc.) is a way to limit ddos attacks but i really dont see that as a feasible solution. even have a dedicated security team in place to look out for such attacks won't work because as you know it security folks are reactive and by the time the ddos is in full swing the damage is done.
ReplyDelete100% surefire way to protect from everything:
ReplyDeleteDisconnect from the internet.
Problem solved.