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DDoS Attacks Are Back (and Bigger Than Before)
By Bill Brenner, CSO January 13, 2010 09:02 PM ET
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are
certainly nothing new. Companies have suffered the
scourge since the beginning of the digital age. But
DDoS seems to be finding its way back into headlines
in the past six months, in thanks to some
high-profile targets and, experts say, two important
changes in the nature of the attacks.
The targets are basically the same - private
companies and government websites. The motive is
typically something like extortion or to disrupt the
operations of a competing company or an unpopular
government. But the ferocity and depth of the
attacks have snowballed, thanks in large part to the
proliferation of botnets and a shift from targeting
ISP connections to aiming legitimate-looking
requests at servers themselves.
In fact, said Andy Ellis, CSO of Cambridge,
Mass.-based Akamai Technologies, the botnets
launching many of today's DDoS attacks are so vast
that those controlling them probably lost track of
how many hijacked machines they control a long time
ago.
Reprinted from NetworkWorld - January 13, 2010
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- March - Unified Computing
- April - TBD
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The Dallas / Fort Worth Cisco Users Group
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web - Ken Cooper
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Vice President, Presentations Director
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