Steve Weis wrote:
"...globally-distributed botnet of thousands of computers..."
Someone could rent thousands of botnet agents for two days for a
couple hundred dollars:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/study-finds-the-average-price-for-renting-a-botnet/6528
"Avaaz does not have any further information about who is behind it..."
They were claiming that this was an attack so sophisticated and
massive that it could have only been perpetrated by a nation state or
large corporation, yet they have no further information about who was
behind it? I think they hyped it up to drive fundraising.
Particularly since nothing about it has shown up on any of the usual
system admin, network admin, or security related lists.
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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