-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 While it is a small detail its important - DDoS attacks are mounted in a different way to a DoS attack. From the vague wording on the Avaaz site it sounds like a DDoS attack, but since there is no evidence it is not possible to make
The wording of the article on Avaaz website is very non-descript and frankly very smoke and mirrors: "under massive attack" "is likely coming from a government or large corporation" "massive, simultaneous and sophisticated assaults from across the world to take down our site" "top-notch security, our site is still up, but it's not enough" "take our security to the next level" Surely the security expert would want to detail the attack. A comparison to articles from organisations and companies such as Opennet and Renesys show to difference in detail given. Bernard On 4 May 2012, at 18:00, Steve Weis wrote: > Hello Andrew. Your article asserts that this attack is happening as fact, yet > you say that Avaaz did not provide any additional information. Which sources > and evidence did you base your article on besides Avaaz's own press release? > > Claims of a "massive attack" are easy to confirm. Avaaz should be able to > provide detailed logs of the attack, which can be verified by an independent > security professional and corroborated by their hosting providers. > > If this does turn out to be a targeted denial of service attack, that > certainly doesn't take real expertise or significant resources -- it's cheap > to rent a botnet. It's a big leap to claim that a state actor or large > corporation must be behind it. > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Andrew Couts <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - I'm the author of that Digital Trends article. I have repeatedly asked > Avaaz for more information about the attack, and they have either said "We'll > know more soon," or completely ignored me. I believe there is simply not > enough information available yet to make accusations of fraud in the press. > But I am doing my best to get answers about exactly this. I'll send out an > update if they respond. > > _______________________________________________ > liberationtech mailing list > [email protected] > > Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click > above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily > digest?" > > You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator > in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. > > Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ===== Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPpA9RAAoJENsz1IO7MIrrl58H/iqcwKikH/ZFSM9biFQvEORX cFmKaS7typuaswd/65pzOfRQxpSVyJiOfmb5ywnxAiiM7sDcv+ZGAzoEnYep+sM3 bTmGnN9e+JGJBsU9UYuI96+omBT2krD1aGtaLB3OcsefXZb9DCmfHb32H8j4e5zV cTWAV9sGItNCtnv83OgtPaFNxY6QYOUOm2SIp8dAWEHy7sdsVVnOx2ktpM2NGfWU 8GH3Tr3DPUJdgv39WaGQO4M9ozZ9kJE8YiuPEIoVTJ5tU+IAh5sIGE5mZyZPbD5c DrLeIrquaoiOVlFr9LF62BBlChLVtDlSL12q14YTARg0hSUWxpvUyzjqhF4UGNs= =OJtd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list [email protected] Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
