Also posted by Krebs yesterday
Also, it seems clear that whoever built this ddos cannon has been
testing it (in europe at OVH, in South America on Tuesday, elsewhere)
Bruce Schneier had this to say about large scale DDoS attacks
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html
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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org]
On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 8:24 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Smith, Cathy wrote:
> KrebsOnSecurity is still down this morning.
So I noticed.
> He posted this on Twitter late last night.
> It's looking likely that KrebsOnSecurity will be offline for a while.
> Akamai's kicking me off their network tonight.
And the bad guys win; that's exactly what they were trying to achieve. How
unfortunate.
Rich
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