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Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
- From: Jeffrey Lyon
- Date: Wed Dec 08 11:41:46 2010
< 1 Gbps attacks used to be standard issue but as of the past 90 days
we have been seeing 2 - 8 Gbps a lot more frequently.
Jeff
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
> On 12/8/2010 10:28 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>>
>> Application-layer attacks aside, most packet-flooding attacks these
>> days don't completely fill links, as there's no need for the attacker
>> to do so.
>>
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> I think the difference here is scale. packet-flooding attacks often do
> fill links; if the links drop to 155mb/s or below. I've seen some gig+ DOS,
> but that is less common. The DOS I posted a flow capture link for wasn't
> that large, but enough to flood out the little DS3 going to the small town
> where the target DSL customers was.
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> Jack
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