Hello Everyone,<br>
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I just wanted to give my 2 cents on this whole thing.<br>
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DNS amplification has been around for quite some time, up until the
last year it wasnt a very common attack. These gigantic attacks that
were reported by people on nanog, prolexic and other companies stemmed
from one source. This individual has been mia for around 5-6 weeks now,
he was arrested / raided.<br>
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This is why exactly about 5 weeks ago people reported the attacks died down.<br>
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This individual has been attacking my orginization for the last year
and i even had a dialogue going with him on IRC, he would come and
message me and tell me how large of an attack he hit me with and
eventually he would gain enough bandwidht to drop our network. He was
open about how he was attacking and how he has taken dns amplification
to new levels and bragged about taking out majors pops in chicago like
savvis who we connect too. <br>
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Anyway, this person was generating anywhere between 8-15gb/s of
bandwidth as people have reported. Since he went missign 5-6 weeks ago
these large attacks have isnce stopped. <br>
Then a few days ago we recieved a relativly small 500mb/s udp attack,
to my suprise it was an amplification attack. Not nearly as large but
large enough to make us notice. This made my stomach cringe. I knew it
couldnt of been this individual, it is too small, plus he is not around
anymore thank god. <br>
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So my question is, with all this media attention, on cnet, yahoo, etc..
These documents describing what exactly it is and how to do it, did we
just teach 50 more of these kids who arent bright enough to think out
of the box like this one individual did? <br>
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