As a Twitter network engineer (and the guy Patrick let camp out in your hotel room all day) - thank you for this. Whoever was behind this just poked a hornet’s nest.
“Govern yourselves accordingly”. -C (Obviously speaking for myself, not my employer…) > On Oct 21, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: > > I cannot give additional info other than what’s been on “public media”. > > However, I would very much like to say that this is a horrific trend on the > Internet. The idea that someone can mention a DDoS then get DDoS’ed Can Not > Stand. See Krebs’ on the Democratization of Censorship. See lots of other > things. > > To Dyn and everyone else being attacked: > The community is behind you. There are problems, but if we stick together, we > can beat these miscreants. > > To the miscreants: > You will not succeed. Search "churchill on the beaches”. It’s a bit > melodramatic, but it’s how I feel at this moment. > > To the rest of the community: > If you can help, please do. I know a lot of you are thinking “what can I do?" > There is a lot you can do. BCP38 & BCP84 instantly come to mind. Sure, that > doesn’t help Mirai, but it still helps. There are many other things you can > do as well. > > But a lot of it is just willingness to help. When someone asks you to help > trace an attack, do not let the request sit for a while. Damage is being > done. Help your neighbor. When someone’s house is burning, your current > project, your lunch break, whatever else you are doing is almost certainly > less important. If we stick together and help each other, we can - we WILL - > win this war. If we are apathetic, we have already lost. > > > OK, enough motivational speaking for today. But take this to heart. Our > biggest problem is people thinking they cannot or do not want to help. > > -- > TTFN, > patrick > >> On Oct 21, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Chris Grundemann <cgrundem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Does anyone have any additional details? Seems to be over now, but I'm very >> curious about the specifics of such a highly impactful attack (and it's >> timing following NANOG 68)... >> >> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twitter-spotify-reddit/ >> >> -- >> @ChrisGrundemann >> http://chrisgrundemann.com >
