While it's important to recognize the importance of defending one's cyber-infrastructure, these attacks were basically anything a 15-year-old with a botnet could put together. From where did the 'state-sponsored' ball get rolling?
While it's important to recognize the importance of defending one's cyber-infrastructure, these attacks were basically anything a 15-year-old with a botnet could put together. From where did the 'state-sponsored' ball get rolling?
Hi AFlynn,Originally Posted by AFlynn
This situation was far more than one expected (at least here). While most would agree that anyone with a botnet could put this together, the situation was much more than just a few teens with botnets.
This link in kaur's post above gets a tad technical, but does a good job of explaining what really took place and to what extent.
Largest attacks we measured: 10 attacks measured at 90 Mbps, lasting upwards of 10 hours. All in all, someone is very, very deliberate in putting the hurt on Estonia, and this kind of thing is only going to get more severe in the coming years.
Links around the net to more information about the attacks:
* Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia, The Guardian, May 17, 2007.
* Estonian and Russia: A cyber-riot, The Economist, May 10, 2007.
* Massive DDoS attacks target Estonia; Russia accused, Ars Technica, May 14, 2007.
* 9th of May on the F-Secure Weblog. Additional news from them: Update on the Estonian DDoS attacks on April 30, and Unrest in Estonia, published on April 28, 2007.We’ve seen 128 unique DDoS attacks on Estonian websites in the past two weeks through ATLAS. Of these, 115 were ICMP floods, 4 were TCP SYN floods, and 9 were generic traffic floods. Attacks were not distributed uniformly, with some sites seeing more attacks than others
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