On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Joshua Goldbard <[email protected]> wrote:
> That was a really big attack. > > The scary part is that it's all DNS reflection, meaning the attackers only > need 3Gbps of bandwidth to generate 300Gbps of DDoS. > > Imagine if they compromised some of the medium sized corporate networks along > with these Botnets. I don't know if the exchanges could hold up against 1Tbps > of DDoS, and the difference between 300 and 1000Gbps is not a lot. > > While I'm excited that CloudFlare is doing such a good job bringing this to > the attention of the masses I can't help but feel that this is essentially a > time bomb. If this attack was an order of magnitude larger, things might be > very different. > Consider this a call-to-arms, in all aspects. Please. - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
