On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:47:25PM +0200, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > article on the "first war in cyberspace" (russian attacks on estonia).
Some nationalist script kiddies launched a DDoS. Big deal. > http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/28/business/cyberwar.php?page=2 > > "The 10 largest assaults blasted streams of 90 megabits of data a second That's MBit, not GBit? I got personally hit by 200-300 MBit/s, at no provocation. > at Estonia's networks, lasting up to 10 hours each. That is a data load > equivalent to downloading the entire Windows XP operating system every > six seconds for 10 hours." So it's more like 90 GBit/s, from the sound of it. I still fail to find this remarkable. Any smallish botnet can do that. Bigger countries have been taken offline because of a pissed off script kiddie. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
